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President-elect Donald Trump announced plans Tuesday to nominate Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor and onetime U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, to lead the agency that administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Trump, meanwhile, said he will nominate Wall Street banker Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary.

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Trump ignores transition rules. It’s a ‘hostile takeover,’ ally says.

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A thousand miles from the austere buildings where Washington runs, Donald Trump’s transition team in his Mar-a-Lago resort has begun what a close ally calls a hostile takeover of the federal government.

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3:53 p.m. EST

Gaetz, Hegseth to start Capitol Hill meetings this week as opposition mounts

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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for attorney general and Pentagon chief will be meeting with senators on Capitol Hill this week, as part of a bid by the incoming administration to speedily confirm their most important picks amid some signs of opposition.

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3:35 p.m. EST

Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win. Not quite.

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John Viaud, a retiree in South Carolina, knew he was taking a big risk when he poured his pension money into the stock of his political icon’s social media company, Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group.

As its share price sank in the months before the election, he took to the company’s Truth Social platform to write, “This is getting depressing! I’ve lost $600,000. … C’mon Trump!”

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2:56 p.m. EST

N.Y. prosecutors appear open to yearslong delay in Trump hush money case

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NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors Tuesday said they will oppose a request by Donald Trump’s lawyers to dismiss his 34-count felony conviction but suggested they were open to postponing proceedings in the case until after the president-elect’s second term in the White House.

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1:27 p.m. EST

Column: Comparing the experience of recent top-level Cabinet nominees

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The line of succession for the presidency, like those complicated charts delineating distance between random British lords and the monarchy, is more theoretical than practical. The idea that the country could see the sudden obliteration of a dozen top-ranking government officials and then calmly announce that the transportation secretary will now be president seems to overlook the scale of the tumult in that moment. Nice to have the details, but if we need to start looking that far down the list, we’ve got other more serious problems.

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1:07 p.m. EST

Rep. Nancy Mace introduces measure to ban trans women from Capitol’s female bathrooms

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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) has introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from female bathrooms in the Capitol, weeks after the historic election of Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Delaware), the first openly trans person to serve in Congress.

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12:33 p.m. EST

Column: Private prisons, crypto and Elon Musk see quick post-election surges

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When Donald Trump was running for president eight years ago, many observers assumed that electing him would have dire consequences for the economy. Should he win, those predictions suggested, the markets would plunge and the economy wobble.

For all of his idiosyncratic tendencies, Trump was at heart a rich guy, one who was happy to let Republican officials implement a standard Republican agenda: tax cuts at the top and elimination of regulations that constrained how businesses could make money.

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9:30 a.m. EST

What the Republican trifecta could mean for student loan borrowers

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The past four years have been filled with highs and lows for federal student loan borrowers, as nearly 5 million have benefited from $175 billion in debt cancellation provided by President Joe Biden and others have watched their prospects for relief ensnared by litigation. The next four years could be just as tumultuous with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House.

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9:10 a.m. EST

Analysis: Trump is empowering conservatives critical of Big Tech

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One of the biggest policy questions going into President-elect Donald Trump’s second term is whether his personnel decisions would reflect the populist rhetoric he channeled on the campaign trail — or the laissez-faire principles traditionally favored by conservatives.

When it comes to reining in Big Tech, so far the populists seem to be winning out.

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8:30 a.m. EST

Analysis: Trump’s return means Medicaid battles might resume, too

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The saying is that elections have consequences. One consequence of this month’s election, which delivered the White House and Congress to the GOP: Trump’s allies have begun eyeing changes to Medicaid and food stamps, seeking to pay for tax cuts.

House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) told reporters last week that a “responsible and reasonable work requirement” for Medicaid benefits could yield about $100 billion in savings.

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8:11 a.m. EST

Trump owns stock worth billions of dollars and says he won’t sell

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Days before Donald Trump assumed the presidency in 2017, he told reporters that he was handing over “complete and total control” of his real estate company to his two eldest sons. He also said he turned down a $2 billion real estate deal in Dubai, and, after having sold off all his stock, vowed to follow a series of self-imposed ethical guidelines.

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7:31 a.m. EST

New York prosecutors face what’s next in Trump’s hush money case

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NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors face a Tuesday deadline to tell a judge how they want to proceed with Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions in his hush money case now that he is the president-elect.

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7:14 a.m. EST

Musk’s ‘DOGE’ commission eyes new app for Americans to file taxes

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The leaders of President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” have discussed trying to create a mobile app for Americans to file their taxes free with the Internal Revenue Service, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

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7:00 a.m. EST

President-elect Donald Trump is now receiving intelligence briefings

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President-elect Donald Trump, the only former president to have been charged with mishandling classified information, has begun receiving intelligence briefings, U.S. officials said.

The briefings provided by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence began shortly after the election, according to U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.

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6:45 a.m. EST

Analysis: Recess appointments complicate Republican honeymoon

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Senate Republicans are bracing for what could be their first clash with President-elect Donald Trump over recess appointments, an obscure Senate procedure that could test the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches.

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6:15 a.m. EST

Who is Sean Duffy? Former lawmaker, reality TV star is Trump’s transport pick.

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Former Wisconsin congressman and MTV reality star Sean P. Duffy has been named by President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee for transportation secretary. “Sean will use his experience and the relationships he has built over many years in Congress to maintain and rebuild” the country’s infrastructure, Trump said in a statement.

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