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1:05 PM ET, November 19, 2024

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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Senate Republicans deliver a message to Trump: Gaetz's confirmation is in jeopardy  —  They're privately hoping Trump doesn't make them walk the plank.  —  Numerous Republican lawmakers told Donald Trump and his team that they believe his pick to be attorney general, controversial Rep. Matt Gaetz …
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Nick Akerman / The Hill:
Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth are unqualified — Senate Republicans should reject them  —  President-elect Donald Trump has nominated three political hacks to highly sensitive and important federal positions: former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as attorney general, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) …
Charlie Dent / MSNBC:
Don't let Matt Gaetz escape accountability — release the ethics report  —  I've served on the House Ethics Committee — here's why it should release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz.  —  The selecti o n of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., by President-elect Donald Trump to lead …
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz  —  The computer file is said to contain testimony from the woman who said she had sex with Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be attorney general, when she was 17.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
‘Morning Joe’ meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say  —  New York CNN —  “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski announced Monday, in dramatic fashion, that they went to Mar-a-Lago last week for a fence-mending meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
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CNN:
Behind the Mar-a-Lago meeting  —  Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's fence-mending meeting with President-elect Donald Trump has the media world buzzing.  Now I have some new reporting to share about why it happened.  —  Yesterday, as outraged “Morning Joe” fans registered their objections …
Rusty Weiss / RedState:
WATCH: Megyn Kelly Unleashes the Hounds of Hell on Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Republican bathroom bill targets Congress's first transgender member  —  South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace introduces bill two months before Sarah McBride is to be sworn in  —  After Delaware elected the first ever openly transgender member of Congress earlier this month …
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Axios:
Johnson pressured by GOP firebrands on trans bathroom access … - Mace told Axios on Tuesday morning that Johnson “said to me last night that he would include it in House Rules.”  — But Johnson stopped short of making that commitment at a press conference, telling reporters, “We're not going to address the plans on any of that.”
NBC News:
Nancy Mace defends anti-trans bathroom bill, says it ‘absolutely’ targets Sarah McBride  —  McBride, the first out transgender person elected to Congress, will be serving in the House starting next year and Mace doesn't want her using women's bathrooms at the Capitol.
Discussion: One America News Network and NOTUS
The Hill:
Mace introduces bill to bar trans women from Capitol restrooms
Maia Davies / BBC:
Ukraine fires US-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia for first time  —  Ukraine has fired US-supplied longer-range missiles at a target inside Russian territory for the first time, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks.  —  US officials confirmed use …
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Associated Press:
Putin signs new Russian nuclear doctrine after Biden's arms decision for Ukraine
New York Times:
Ukraine Fired U.S.-Made Missiles Into Russia for First Time, Officials Say
Nicole Narea / Vox:
The law is clear on birthright citizenship.  Can Trump end it anyway?  —  Ending birthright citizenship has been on President-elect Donald Trump's wish list for years, and he's pledged to kill it once and for all in his next term.  But ending it may not be as easy as he's promised.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Arianna Coghill / Mother Jones:
Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations
Steven Lubet / The Hill:   The Trump administration's next target: naturalized US citizens
Public Notice:
RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat  —  Dems like Jared Polis shouldn't pretend pretend otherwise.  —  ∙ Paid … Donald Trump, in his vacuous orange wisdom, has nominated vaccine denier, crank, and champion of disease Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Discussion: Politico, Daily Mail and CNBC
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
House Democrats keep Jeffries, top leadership team in place  —  House Democrats voted Tuesday to keep their top leadership team in place, voicing overwhelming confidence in Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his top deputies exactly two weeks after a disappointing Election Day relegated …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Hakeem Jeffries reelected as House Democratic leader
NOTUS:
Sen. Thom Tillis Faces an Early Trump Loyalty Test … Calen Razor and Alex Roarty  — Copy  —  Donald Trump's controversial Cabinet selections are already making life difficult for Republican senators.  —  No one should know that better than Thom Tillis.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Defies the #MeToo Movement With Cabinet Picks Facing Accusations  —  Donald J. Trump, who was found liable for sexual abuse last year, appears determined to force a fight over the role of such allegations in society.  —  When he takes the oath of office in January …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and New Republic
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators deride idea of replacing FBI background checks for Trump nominees  —  Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting background checks for high-level nominees away from the FBI and give it to private investigators.
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Frank Figliuzzi / MSNBC:
Biden should order background checks of Trump's Cabinet picks
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Trump to tap Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary … - Lutnick was hoping to become Treasury secretary, but Trump recently soured on the finalists and is considering other options, transition sources tell Axios. … - Lutnick became one of the most prominent business voices in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
November 18, 2024  —  On Friday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo locked in a $6.6 billion deal with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for it to invest $65 billion in three state-of-the-art fabrication plants in Arizona.  This will bring thousands of jobs to the state.
Elizabeth Passarella / New York Times:
Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data.  X Users Obliged.  —  Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok.  —  Over the past few weeks, users on X have been submitting X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok …
 
 
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Buddy Carter / Washington Post:
I sleep in my office. The rest of Congress should, too.
Bloomberg:
Google's Chrome to Fetch Up to $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge denies Jan. 6 defendant's bid to delay trial that could straddle Trump inauguration
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Benedict Vigers / Gallup:
Half of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War
Discussion: The Hill, BBC, Semafor and Reuters
New York Times:
Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Republicans slow down Senate floor to delay Biden judicial picks
New York Times:
Trump Plans to Attend Musk's SpaceX Launch on Tuesday
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Recess appointments complicate Republican honeymoon
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Pennsylvania Dem Gov. Josh Shapiro sides with state supreme court ruling not to count certain mail-in ballots
Politico:
‘Ready for prime time’: Trump trots out once-scorned economic plans
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The first task for Musk's Department of Government Efficiency
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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