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Will Steakin / ABC News:
Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources  —  Trump tapped Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the new attorney general.  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 23, 2024.
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NBC News:
Senators want details of Matt Gaetz ethics probe before his confirmation vote for attorney general  —  Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says he's open to subpoenaing the House Ethics Committee for information about Trump's pick.  Others say the confirmation process will bring things to light.
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump picks ex-congressman Doug Collins for veterans affairs secretary  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he intends to nominate former Representative Doug Collins for secretary of veterans affairs.  —  “We must take care of our brave men and women in uniform …
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Gaetz Begins Lobbying Lawmakers, Hoping He Hasn't Burned All the Bridges  —  MATT GAETZ EARNED A REPUTATION IN CONGRESS as an acid-tongued, anti-establishment knife fighter who didn't come to Washington to make friends.  —  But now Gaetz wants to become the next attorney general of the United States.
New York Times:
How Trump Picked Gaetz
Discussion: Law Dork, emptywheel and Politico
Ben Domenech / The Transom:
Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns That
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Trump looks to bypass Senate for polarizing Cabinet picks
Wall Street Journal:
Gaetz Nomination Seen as Doomed by Some Senate Republicans
The Guardian:
Trump health secretary choice is ‘courting catastrophe’, says rights group - as it happened
Politico:
Trump to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS  —  The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.  —  President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former presidential candidate and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
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Denver Post:
Gov. Jared Polis cheers RFK Jr.'s nomination for health post despite anti-vaccine statements  —  Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday cheered anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the nation's top public health agency, highlighting the controversial nominee's stances on “big pharma” and “corporate ag.”
Benjamin Mazer / The Atlantic:
The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.  —  Let's call a crank a crank.  —  Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's improbable nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, actually such a crank?  Short answer: yes.  But two opinion pieces published in just the past few days argue that although Kennedy …
Discussion: Associated Press and HotAir
CNN:
Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary  —  West Palm Beach, Florida CNN —  President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services …
Jeongyoon Han / NPR:
Trump picks RFK Jr. to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Picks R.F.K. Jr. to Be Head of Health and Human Services Dept.
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin signals willingness to back Biden's final push on judges … - Manchin told Axios that “we're in different times right now” when asked about his previous pledge, adding that “my Republican friends are under the microscope.” … - Manchin's vote is critical …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Senate Democrats caught flat-footed by GOP anti-trans attacks
Discussion: Washington Post
David Sivak / Washington Examiner:
Susan Collins plans to run for sixth term in the Senate
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Defense Secretary Pick Pete Hegseth Said to Face Previous Sexual Misconduct Allegation  —  Sources say Donald Trump's transition team leadership met with the former Fox News host, who is a left-field pick to head the Department of Defense, about the claims on Thursday.
Discussion: CBS News, The Independent and Raw Story
Marc Bennetts / The Times:
Trump's intelligence chief pick Tulsi Gabbard is 'Russia's girlfriend'  —  Ukraine accused the president-elect's choice for cabinet of being on the Kremlin's payroll  —  Donald Trump's pick for US national intelligence chief was accused by Ukraine of being on the Kremlin's payroll after the start of Russia's invasion.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Elon Musk Met With Iran's U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say  —  The tech billionaire, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, was reported to have discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.  —  Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump …
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Rahm Emanuel weighs bid for DNC chair … - David Axelrod, who steered Barack Obama's campaigns and is a friend of Emanuel, floated earlier this week that the combative and energetic Emanuel would be an ideal leader for a deflated party.  — “If they said, 'Well, what should we do?
Sam Sutton / Politico:
The Biden economy is about to get a new salesman: Donald Trump  —  Trump hammered the administration for creating an “economic catastrophe,” but some of his favorite gauges for assessing economic performance have been humming.  —  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could not sell voters on the strength of the economy.
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon Threatens Ari Melber, Says Matt Gaetz's DOJ Is Coming For Him And ‘All The Producers of MSNBC’  —  Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon told MSNBC's Ari Melber and “all you hosts” and producers at the network that they had better “lawyer up” because Matt Gaetz's Justice Department would soon be coming for them.
Lachlan Cartwright / Columbia Journalism Review:
Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage  —  Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast.  —  The letter, addressed to lawyers at the New York Times and Penguin Random House, arrived a week before the election.
more at Mediagazer »
NOTUS:
Tim Scott's New NRSC Hire Is Ruffling Feathers Even Before It's Official  —  Sources told NOTUS that Scott is tapping Mike Pence's former campaign manager to be executive director of the Senate GOP's campaign arm.  —  Reese Gorman and Alex Roarty  — Copy
Washington Post:
Go bags, passports, foreign assets: Preparing to be a target of Trump's revenge  —  Some prominent critics of Donald Trump, and those he has vilified as “deep state” saboteurs, are taking seriously his vow of retribution.  —  A retired U.S. Army officer who clashed with senior officials …
Discussion: The Bulwark and Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit  —  President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Should the Democratic Party be listening to John Fetterman?  —  The Pennsylvania senator on the ‘bros’ vote, where he thinks he can work with Trump and the problem with Democrats calling Trump a fascist.  —  John Fetterman often has an uncanny sense of which presidential candidate is going to win Pennsylvania.
Discussion: RedState, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Discussion: GovExec.com
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