President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced Wednesday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-expected-to-tap-stephen-miller-for-top-policy-position" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Miller</a> would be returning to the White House to be his Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor.
Miller, who was a top policy advisor and speechwriter for Trump during his first term, recently worked as senior advisor to Trump’s campaign and the president of <a href="https://aflegal.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America First Legal</a>. Miller is known for his strong advocacy for securing the border and deporting illegal immigrants and helped develop Trump’s immigration policy during his first administration.
America First Legal, which was formed in 2021, has made a name for itself by filing lawsuits challenging the Biden administration and woke corporations. Most recently, it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-strikes-down-biden-parole-program-for-half-a-million-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won a lawsuit</a> against an illegal immigrant parole program rolled out by the Department of Homeland Security.
Miller has promised a major crackdown on illegal immigration, and reducing legal migration into the United States as well.
“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Miller said last year.
Trump made the <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113477113500861692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> on Wednesday, noting that he had tapped Dan Scavinio, James Blair, and Taylor Budowich for other key White House roles.
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Scavinio will be an assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for Trump, who referred to him as one of his “longest serving and most trusted aides.” Scavino was another member of Trump’s re-election team.
Blair will be an assistant to the president and the deputy chief of staff for legislative, political, and public affairs. During Trump’s 2024 campaign, Blair worked as the political director for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. According to Trump, Blair managed “hundreds of staff” and oversaw “a wide portfolio of political operations and programs” during the campaign.
Budowich will be an assistant to Trump and serve as the deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel. He previously held a senior role in several pro-Trump political action committees.
&#8220;Dan, Stephen, James, and Taylor were &#8216;best in class&#8217; advisors on my winning campaign and I know they will honorably serve the American people in the White House,&#8221; Trump said in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113477113500861692">statement</a>. &#8220;They will continue to work hard to Make America Great Again in their respective new roles.&#8221;

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President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are set to meet at the White House on Wednesday as Trump prepares for his second term.
The meeting, which is scheduled for 11 a.m. ET, will take place just over a week after Trump cruised to a landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, the candidate who replaced Biden on the ticket in July after the president&#8217;s fellow Democrats urged him to drop out of the race. It will be a rare meeting between the two presidents. After the 2020 election, Trump declined to invite Biden to the White House as he continued to challenge the election results.
Trump&#8217;s visit with Biden in the Oval Office also marks his first return to the White House since the end of his first term on January 20, 2021.
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&#8220;I’m sure it will be a bitter pill for President Biden but a moment of sweet revenge in some ways for President Trump, to come back to the place he had to give up four years ago but come back with a truly significant victory, including the popular vote, which a Republican hasn’t won in a long time,” a former Trump campaign official, who remained anonymous, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4986808-trump-biden-meeting-white-house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Hill.
During the 2024 campaign, Biden repeatedly <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-argue-trump-remains-threat-democracy-case-campaign-thinks-resona-rcna132151" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeled</a> Trump a &#8220;threat to democracy,&#8221; claiming last January that Trump is &#8220;willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power.&#8221; Just days after an assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly killed Trump, Biden again <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-labels-trump-threat-to-democracy-after-urging-americans-to-tone-down-heated-rhetoric/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that Trump represented a threat to the U.S. A week before the election, Biden also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-declares-trump-supporters-are-garbage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to Trump&#8217;s supporters as &#8220;garbage,&#8221; sparking outrage among Republicans, including Trump.
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Last week, Biden called Trump to congratulate him on his election victory and promise a smooth transition of power.
&#8220;I assured him that I would direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That’s what the American people deserve,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/11/07/remarks-by-president-biden-in-address-to-the-nation-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
After talking with Biden, Trump is expected to meet with Republicans in Congress as GOP senators gather to pick their new leader. Along with Trump&#8217;s election victory, Republicans also flipped control of the Senate and maintained control of the House.
Trump has already nominated multiple people for positions in his new cabinet, including combat veteran and Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-pete-hegseth-fox-host-and-army-vet-as-defense-secretary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Hegseth</a> for Defense Secretary, South Dakota Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-kristi-noem-to-lead-department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristi Noem</a> for Homeland Security Secretary, and Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-offers-elise-stefanik-u-n-ambassadorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) for U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced on Tuesday that he is selecting John Ratcliffe, the former Director of National Intelligence, to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113472422495973695" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement that Ratcliffe &#8220;will be a fearless fighter for the Constitutional Rights of all Americans, while ensuring the Highest Levels of National Security, and PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.&#8221; Ratcliffe, a former congressman representing Texas&#8217; 4th District, was awarded the National Security Medal by Trump in 2020 after he spoke out against the FBI and Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into the spurious claims of Trump’s ties to Russia.
Shortly before the 2020 election, Ratcliffe declassified information about the 2016 election that suggested Hillary Clinton’s campaign approved a plan to “stir up a scandal” against Trump that tied him to the Russians.
&#8220;From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation, to catching the FBI&#8217;s abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, John Ratcliffe has always been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American Public,&#8221; Trump added.
Before his time in Congress, Ratcliffe served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas. He was a congressman for five years before he was tapped by Trump to become the Director of National Intelligence in 2020. Ratcliffe was also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-names-being-floated-for-trumps-ag-pick" target="_blank" rel="noopener">floated</a> as a potential pick for Trump&#8217;s attorney general.
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The new Trump administration is quickly taking shape as the president named people for multiple positions this week, including former Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-will-restore-american-energy-dominance-trump-taps-lee-zeldin-to-lead-epa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lee Zeldin</a> (R-NY) to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stefanik-aims-to-restore-america-first-peace-through-strength-as-trumps-u-n-ambassador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and former Arkansas Republican Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-huckabee-nominated-for-u-s-ambassador-to-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Huckabee</a> as the U.S. ambassador to Israel.

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As President-elect Donald Trump continues to build his Cabinet, Americans are waiting for him to appoint someone to one of the most important positions in the administration: attorney general.
Trump&#8217;s pick for attorney general will be one of the most talked about appointments heading into his second term. In his first term, Trump appointed Jeff Sessions, who served as AG for two years, and then appointed Bill Barr, who served during the final two years of Trump&#8217;s time in the White House.
Multiple names are being floated for potential replacements for President Joe Biden&#8217;s Attorney General Merrick Garland.
<h3>Mark Paoletta</h3>
Attorney Mark Paoletta served in the Trump administration as chief counsel and assistant to Vice President Mike Pence before moving to general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Paoletta is a close friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni, and he played an important <a href="https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/the-real-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">role</a> in Thomas&#8217; confirmation to the High Court.
From 1997 to 2007, Paoletta served as Chief Counsel for Oversight and Investigations for the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He now serves on Trump&#8217;s transition team and is helping craft Justice Department policy for the second Trump administration, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whos-who-trumps-short-list-attorney-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. In an X <a href="https://x.com/MarkPaoletta/status/1855977334106390915" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Monday, Paoletta told &#8220;career DOJ employees&#8221; who &#8220;won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith&#8221; to step down.
&#8220;Those employees who engage in so-called &#8216;resistance&#8217; against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Finally, those that take such actions would be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination. I look forward to President Trump’s team Making America Great Again, especially at the Department of Justice and the FBI.&#8221;
<h3>John Ratcliffe</h3>
John Ratcliffe served as Trump&#8217;s Director of National Intelligence for a year at the end of the president&#8217;s first term. Before taking that role, Ratcliffe served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, and was elected to Congress in 2015, where he served for five years as the House representative from Texas&#8217;s 4th District.
Ratcliffe was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/new-spy-chief-pick-ratcliffe-made-his-name-during-the-trump-inquiries-by-backing-the-president/2019/07/28/f92658ce-b185-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outspoken</a> in his criticism of the FBI and Robert Mueller&#8217;s special counsel investigation into the spurious claims of Trump&#8217;s ties to Russia. Shortly before the 2020 election, Ratcliffe declassified information about the 2016 election that suggested Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign approved a plan to “stir up a scandal” against Trump that tied him to the Russians, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/politics/john-ratcliffe-russian-disinformation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Ratcliffe has remained quiet on the rumors surrounding a potential AG appointment.
<h3>Sen. Mike Lee</h3>
Utah Senator Mike Lee has been one of the most conservative lawmakers in Washington, D.C., for over a decade. Lee has an extensive legal background, serving as a clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, clerking for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, and working as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Utah. He served as Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.&#8217;s general counsel before his election to the Senate in 2010.
Lee won his third term in office in 2022. He was a strong critic of Trump in 2016, <a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-bde9ab70ff2a41ef8e779b565421876e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voting</a> for independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin. Lee, however, quickly became a staunch Trump ally of Trump. Six years later, Trump backed Lee&#8217;s re-election bid when McMullin challenged him for the Senate in an election that Lee won by over 10 points.
Lee <a href="https://thedispatch.com/article/mike-lees-journey-from-trump-critic-to-trump-supporter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Dispatch earlier this year that after Trump started governing in 2017, Lee saw that &#8220;he aligned a lot more with Republican ideals than I expected. In some areas, I was particularly surprised how well things went.&#8221;
Asked about a possible role in the Trump administration last week, Lee <a href="https://www.deseret.com/politics/2024/11/07/sen-mike-lee-trump-administration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Deseret News, &#8220;I have the job I want.&#8221;
&#8220;And I look forward to working in the next Congress and with President Trump and his team to implement his agenda and the reform agenda that Republicans have offered and campaigned on, and it’s going to be an exciting time,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We’ve got a lot of work to do.&#8221;
<h3>Judge Aileen Cannon</h3>
ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-tossed-trumps-classified-docs-case-list-proposed/story?id=114997807" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last month that District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who threw out the classified documents case against Trump earlier this year, appeared on a Trump ream document as a potential attorney general pick. The document was reportedly written by Trump&#8217;s top advisers. Cannon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-dismisses-trump-classified-documents-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> the classified documents case against Trump in July, ruling that &#8220;Special Counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.&#8221;
Cannon, whom Trump appointed in 2020, was born in Colombia and grew up in Miami. From 2008 to 2009, she clerked for Steven Colloton, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Iowa. Cannon was then an assistant United States <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/28/trump-special-master-fbi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attorney</a> for the Southern District of Florida from 2013 to 2020.
Cannon also presided over the case of Ryan Routh, who was charged with attempting to assassinate Trump at his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course in September. Routh&#8217;s lawyers have <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/aileen-cannon-attorney-general-trump-report-rcna176787" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Cannon to recuse herself from the case, citing her potential appointment to a higher position in the second Trump administration.
<h3>Matthew Whitaker</h3>
A candidate who already has some experience in the position is former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, whom Trump tapped to fill the position for a short time between the stints of Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr.
Whitaker served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa from 2004 until 2009. He then worked as a managing partner of a general practice law firm in Des Moines, Iowa, from 2009 to 2017. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Whitaker to serve as his chief of staff in 2017. After Sessions resigned in November 2018, Whitaker was tapped by Trump to serve as Acting Attorney General, a position he held until February 2019 when Barr took over.
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Whitaker did not tell <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whos-who-trumps-short-list-attorney-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> whether he was interested in the position in the second Trump administration, saying, &#8220;[Trump&#8217;s] going to want someone who he knows, likes and trusts. He&#8217;s going to want someone who was there from the beginning.&#8221;
<h3>Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey</h3>
Another name floated for AG is the recently appointed Missouri Attorney General, Andrew Bailey. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson appointed Bailey after former Missouri AG Eric Schmitt ran for Senate and won in 2022. As the state&#8217;s chief law enforcement officer, Bailey has challenged the Biden administration in dozens of lawsuits including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/missouri-accuses-biden-admin-of-diversion-tactics-hiding-info-about-illegal-migrants-in-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing</a> the federal government of &#8220;hid[ing] information from Americans&#8221; about &#8220;flying of illegal immigrants into Missouri.&#8221;
Bailey served as general counsel of the Missouri Department of Corrections and as general counsel for Parson. As attorney general, Bailey has also gone after the abortion drug <a href="https://missouriindependent.com/2024/10/22/missouri-mifepristone-lawsuit-andrew-bailey-teen-pregnancy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mifepristone</a>, arguing that it is too dangerous and seeking to ensure “long-standing safety requirements” are put in place for the drug.
In 2023, Bailey announced new restrictions on gender procedures for adults and children. The new rules required people to undergo 18 months of therapy before receiving gender treatments.
As Trump continues to announce cabinet positions following his election victory, the attorney general pick could come at any time. Trump&#8217;s pick then must be confirmed by a majority of the Senate, which will be under Republican control beginning in January.

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Here Are The Names Being Floated For Trump's AG Pick

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President-elect Donald Trump is adding to his cabinet on Monday, selecting former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) to run the Environmental Protection Agency, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/11/us-news/trump-picks-lee-zeldin-to-lead-epa-adding-second-nyer-to-cabinet/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The 44-year-old former congressman has a background in military and law, serving in the U.S. Army and Military Intelligence Corps. before becoming an attorney for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Zeldin also ran for New York governor in 2022, narrowly losing to Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Trump confirmed the appointment in a statement to the New York Post, saying, &#8220;Lee, with a very strong legal background, has been a true fighter for America First policies. He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet.&#8221;
Zeldin said he is &#8220;deeply honored&#8221; to serve in Trump&#8217;s cabinet, vowing, &#8220;As EPA Administrator, we will restore American energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, make the United States the global leader of Artificial Intelligence advancement, and slash the red tape holding back American workers from upward economic mobility.&#8221;
&#8220;We will accomplish all this while conserving our environment, protecting access to clean air and water, and keeping the American people healthy. I look forward to contributing to President Trump’s agenda to build a more prosperous future for our nation,&#8221; Zeldin added.
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It is an honor to join President Trump’s Cabinet as EPA Administrator.
We will restore US energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, and make the US the global leader of AI. We will do so while protecting access to clean air and water. <a href="https://t.co/FQk9XPdgcw">https://t.co/FQk9XPdgcw</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeeMZeldin/status/1856068555865026956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Zeldin is the second New Yorker to be named to Trump&#8217;s cabinet after Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-offers-elise-stefanik-u-n-ambassadorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accepted</a> the president-elect&#8217;s offer to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Both Zeldin and Stefanik <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/trumps-house-allies-to-help-his-defense-in-senate-101281" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served</a> on Trump&#8217;s defense team during his first impeachment trial.
&#8220;He will set new standards on environmental review and maintenance that will allow the United States to grow in a healthy and well-structured way,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;I have known Lee Zeldin for a long time, and have watched him handle, brilliantly, some extremely difficult and complex situations. I am very proud to have him in the Trump Administration, where he will quickly prove to be a great contributor!&#8221;

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‘We Will Restore American Energy Dominance’: Trump Taps Lee Zeldin To Lead EPA

'We Will Restore American Energy Dominance': Trump Taps Lee Zeldin To Lead EPA

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The leaders of President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>’s transition team announced Wednesday that they would be spending the next few weeks preparing to staff the next administration. 
Linda McMahon, former head of the Small Business Administration (SBA), and businessman Howard Lutnick released a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3222075/trump-transition-team-statement-election-victory-transition-process/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> detailing the transition team&#8217;s next steps after Trump&#8217;s landslide win. As of Thursday morning, Trump was projected to win the popular vote and 312 electoral votes, including a sweep of the battleground states. 
“Since the formation of President Trump’s transition organization and our announcement as Co-Chairs in August, we have been preparing for President Trump’s next administration,” McMahon and Lutnick said. “In the days and weeks ahead, President Trump will be selecting personnel to serve our nation under his leadership and enact policies that make the life of Americans affordable, safe, and secure.”
The two added that they would be presenting Trump with a “wide array of experts” to choose from to add to his administration. 
“As he chooses the best people to join his team and best policies to pursue, his transition team will ensure the implementation of President Trump’s common sense agenda starting on Day 1,” the joint statement said.
McMahon, the wife of former WWE CEO Vince McMahon, led the SBA during Trump’s first term in office and has recently been in charge of the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank. Lutnick, the billionaire head of financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, was a prominent donor to Trump. 
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Other transition team members include Vice President-elect JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 
Trump Jr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-reveals-who-will-lead-his-transition-team-if-he-wins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously said</a> he hoped to keep bad-faith actors from joining the administration. 
“I want to block the liars. I want to block the guys that are, you know, pretending they’re with you. I just want to block the bad actors. I just want to be a block. That’s it,” he said at the Republican National Convention in July. 
Trump is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden in the coming days.
“President Trump looks forward to the meeting, which will take place shortly, and very much appreciated the call,” Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said after Biden called to congratulate Trump. 
Biden is expected to speak Thursday morning from the White House for the first time since Tuesday’s election.

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Jamie Dimon, Chairman &amp; CEO of JPMorgan Chase, endorsed Elon Musk&#8217;s proposed &#8220;government efficiency commission&#8221; during an interview where he also weighed in on the state of the U.S. presidential race.
Dimon, who made the remarks during a Tuesday interview on CNBC-TV18, said that he was not planning to endorse either candidate and was more focused on policy.
He said he wanted to do things &#8220;to make America healthier and to lift up all of our citizens.&#8221;
Dimon said that the bottom 20 percent of Americans have been &#8220;left behind&#8221; and that populism is on the rise because they are &#8220;dying younger,&#8221; &#8220;their schools are worse,&#8221; and &#8220;they have more crime in the neighborhoods.&#8221;
Regarding the prospect of Musk joining a potential future Trump administration, Dimon said: &#8220;So, Elon &#8211; this idea about having an efficiency commission &#8211; I actually like the idea.&#8221;
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&#8220;I mean, I think governments have to become more efficient, more competent, and look at when they take money, what do they get for it?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And I actually think it&#8217;s a very good idea.&#8221;
&#8220;We really need to do it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I mean in America we need to do it, I&#8217;m sure a lot of other countries need to do the same thing.&#8221;
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Dimon also said he was worried about geopolitical events because of their ability to &#8220;determine the state of the economy.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s really the geopolitics, that these things, you know, they&#8217;re getting worse, they&#8217;re not getting better,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a chance for accidents in energy supply. God knows other countries get involved. You have a lot of war taking place right now. You have American warships being attacked almost every day in the Red Seas. That&#8217;s my biggest caution.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to really think through how much debt countries can put on before it causes a real problem,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So I&#8217;m a long-term optimist. Short run, I&#8217;m a little more skeptical than other people that everything&#8217;s going to be great. Markets are pricing things like they&#8217;re going to be great. Put me on the cautious side of that one.&#8221;
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Geopolitics &amp; conflicts are getting worse &amp; remain the biggest risk for the state of the economy, that&#8217;s the word coming in from the world&#8217;s top banker, Jamie Dimon, Chairman &amp; CEO, JPMorgan Chase, from the sidelines of JPMorgan India Investor Summit. He tells Prashant Nair that… <a href="https://t.co/ump3eFq4VY">pic.twitter.com/ump3eFq4VY</a>
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A White House official was asked about a group of veterans who were critical of the Biden administration’s mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal and said there was no point in responding to a “handful of vets.”
White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby accidentally hit reply all to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kirby-no-use-responding-handful-vets-bidens-botched-afghan-withdrawal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Fox News inquiry</a> when he apparently meant to reply to White House staffers. In his response, Kirby diminished the concerns of veterans on the anniversary of 9/11.
&#8220;Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe,&#8221; Kirby said in his response.
Fox News said it had reached out to the White House on Wednesday afternoon with comments from four veterans, including Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), who were unhappy with Kirby’s press conference on Monday. Fox included quotes from four veterans who said Kirby was “deflecting” from the Biden administration’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
&#8220;The bottom line is that the Biden-Harris administration chose politics over strategy, and Kirby, who I wouldn’t trust to guard my grocery list, is now trying to cover for them,&#8221; Mills said in one of the quotes.
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The situation began when the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX), released a report that disputed the Biden administration’s long-held claim that the withdrawal was former President Donald Trump’s fault and that President Joe Biden was bound by an agreement Trump made with Afghanistan. Trump’s agreement established a deadline in 2021 but included conditions for withdrawal.
The report from McCaul found that State Department officials had no plan to help Americans and Afghan allies get out of the country while American troops were still there to protect them, Fox News reported. The report also determined that the Biden administration didn’t adequately respond to terror threats ahead of the withdrawal, leading to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and more than 150 Afghan civilians. The botched withdrawal also left the Taliban with upwards of $7 billion in abandoned U.S. weapons and equipment and $57 million that had been given to the Afghan government before the Taliban took over.
In April 2021, Biden <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/2573268/biden-announces-full-us-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-by-sept-11/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he would fully withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan before September 11, which precluded him from determining if conditions on the ground warranted the withdrawal.
After McCaul had released his report, Kirby attended <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2024/09/09/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-communications-adviser-john-kirby/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a White House briefing</a> to dismiss its findings and defend Biden by blaming Trump for the disaster that had happened under Biden’s watch.
&#8220;President Biden, for his part, faced a stark choice when he came to office: Abide by the flawed agreement and end America’s longest war, or blow up the deal, extend the war, and see a much smaller contingent of American troops back in combat with the Taliban,&#8221; Kirby said at the press briefing. &#8220;He chose the former and was able to buy additional time to prepare for that withdrawal all the way into summer, and we, as a nation, are safer for it.&#8221;

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump revealed on Friday that two major donors and two of his sons will lead his transition team if he wins a second term in the White House.
Trump tapped former Small Business Administration (SBA) head Linda McMahon and businessman Howard Lutnick to lead the transition team. Trump&#8217;s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), and his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, will serve as &#8220;honorary chairs&#8221; of the team, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4830976-trump-transition-team-announced/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“The 2024 GOP Platform to Make America Great Again is a forward-looking agenda that will deliver safety, prosperity and freedom for the American people. My administration will deliver on these bold promises,” Trump said in a statement. “We will restore strength, competence and common sense to the Oval Office. I have absolute confidence the Trump-Vance Administration will be ready to govern effectively on Day One.”
McMahon, the wife of former WWE CEO Vince McMahon, led the SBA during Trump&#8217;s first term in office and has recently been in charge of the pro-Trump think tank America First Policy Institute. Lutnick, the billionaire head of financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, hosted a fundraiser for Trump earlier this month where around 100 people joined the Republican nominee in the Hamptons, according to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/lutnick-aims-raise-10-million-151520706.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg</a>.
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Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump held influential positions in their father&#8217;s first administration and would once again take on advisory roles if Trump wins in November. Donald Jr. said during the Republican National Convention that he wants &#8220;veto power&#8221; over who his father picks to serve in a second Trump administration.
“I want to block the liars. I want to block the guys that are, you know, pretending they’re with you. I just want to block the bad actors. I just want to be a block. That’s it,” he said. Donald Jr. and Eric <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-chose-jd-vance-running-mate-vp-pick-rcna161982" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> urged their father to select Vance as his running mate.
Trump&#8217;s selection of two business-oriented supporters to lead his transition team comes as no surprise as the former president seeks to hammer home his message on the economy on the campaign trail. This week, the Republican nominee held an event in North Carolina and a press conference in New Jersey where he slammed the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s handling of the economy and inflation.
In Asheville, North Carolina, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-kamala-must-explain-the-economic-suffering-shes-caused-along-with-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, to &#8220;explain&#8221; the economic &#8220;suffering&#8221; Americans currently face.
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“Kamala Harris wants to talk about her fantasies … she wants to talk for the future about these fantasies, but really what she needs to explain is the present suffering that she has caused along with Joe Biden,” Trump said.
Harris was blasted earlier this week for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-blasted-after-unveiling-soviet-style-price-controls-to-stop-inflation-kamalanomics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposing</a> price controls to address inflation, blaming cost increases on &#8220;corporate greed&#8221; and ignoring the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s economic and energy policies.
“Now Kamala is reportedly proposing communist price controls, she wants price controls,” Trump said on Thursday at his press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey. “And if they worked, I’d go along with it, too, but they don’t work. They exactly have the exact opposite impact and effect &#8230; it leads to food shortages, rationing, hunger, dramatically more inflation.”
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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, who is running another campaign for the White House, demanded this week that funding be cut from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a> after a longtime NPR editor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias.
&#8220;NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO &#8216;DAMAGE TRUMP.&#8217; THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112248653824267212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to Truth Social on Wednesday.
The Free Press published an <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> on Tuesday in which NPR Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner argued NPR &#8220;lost America&#8217;s trust&#8221; with its increasingly liberal bent. Despite his critique, Berliner said &#8220;defunding&#8221; was not the way to address the &#8220;missteps&#8221; he outlined.
&#8220;As the country becomes more fractured, there’s still a need for a public institution where stories are told and viewpoints exchanged in good faith. Defunding, as a rebuke from Congress, wouldn’t change the journalism at NPR. That needs to come from within,&#8221; he said.
Multiple times during his presidency, Trump <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/02/donald-trump-public-media-pbs-npr-1202856498/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> reining in funding for public media, but Congress did not take him up on the cuts. If he is re-elected this year, that could change. As noted in a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-congressional-gop-00151629" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO report</a> after the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-blocks-fisa-spy-bill-opponents-demand-warrant-requirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked the advancement of a FISA bill</a> that Trump opposed, the former president is &#8220;tightening his stranglehold on the congressional GOP’s policy agenda.&#8221;
When NPR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-ditches-twitter-over-actions-that-undermine-our-credibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ditched</a> Twitter (now X) last year after being slapped with labels linking it to the U.S. government, the network <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> it &#8220;receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.&#8221; Still, on its website, NPR says federal funding is <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;essential&#8221;</a> and that ending it &#8220;would result in fewer programs, less journalism — especially local journalism—and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.&#8221;
In his op-ed, Berliner talked about how the &#8220;rise of advocacy took off&#8221; when Trump got elected to the White House in the 2016 election when he defeated Hillary Clinton.
&#8220;As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly),&#8221; Berliner said. &#8220;But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.&#8221;
Berliner discussed how NPR interviewed Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) dozens of times, during which he often spoke about there being evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, but the network offered up &#8220;notably sparse&#8221; coverage when Robert Mueller&#8217;s special counsel report released in 2019 found &#8220;no credible evidence of collusion&#8221; and let Russiagate &#8220;fade&#8221; from its programming.
&#8220;It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens,&#8221; Berliner said. &#8220;You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.&#8221;
The editor shared an anecdote about the Hunter Biden laptop story, which emerged prior to the 2020 election, saying it was &#8220;newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.&#8221;
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Berliner also said he found 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans working editorial positions in D.C., where NPR is headquartered, but when he shared the data in a staff meeting and suggested there was a diversity problem, &#8220;the response wasn’t hostile. It was worse. It was met with profound indifference.&#8221;
NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin <a href="https://twitter.com/BenMullin/status/1777773343267062201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a statement saying that she and her colleagues on the leadership team &#8220;strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes.&#8221; She also said, &#8220;We&#8217;re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories.&#8221;

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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) has appointed former Trump administration official Cliff Sims to serve on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
The Commission is tasked with monitoring, investigating, and submitting an annual report — both classified and unclassified — to Congress on “the national security implications and impact of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and China.”
The report includes recommendations to Congress for legislative and administrative action to strengthen the U.S.&#8217; position against its top geopolitical threat and competitor, China.
Sims, who previously served as President Trump’s Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Strategy and Communications, was backed by former top officials and current key U.S. lawmakers for the position.
&#8220;Cliff played an integral role in our efforts to shift the Intelligence Community&#8217;s focus toward an adversarial China,&#8221; said former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. &#8220;I commend Speaker Johnson for this appointment and for sending a clear message that President Trump&#8217;s approach to confronting China is the surest way to secure America’s future security and prosperity.&#8221;
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Others who backed Sims for the position included former Trump national security adviser Robert O&#8217;Brien, Donald Trump Jr., House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL), House Ways &amp; Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO), and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX).
&#8220;Cliff was instrumental in the aggressive China moves late in the Trump Administration and this appointment is a savvy move by the Speaker to keep Trump and his allies close,&#8221; said a source close to House leadership.

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