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Trump nominates Dr. Oz to run medicare. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)
Trump picks Linda McMahon, former wrestling executive, to head Department of Education. — 19 November 2024 (LINK)
Trump vows to use US military for mass deportations. — 18 November 2024 (LINK)
Heather Cox Richardson: As final vote tallies are coming in, it turns out that Trump did not win 50% of the vote, and CNN statistician Harry Enten notes that his margin comes in at 44th out of the 51 elections that have been held since 1824. He also had very short coattails — four Democrats won in states Trump carried — and the Republicans have the smallest House majority since there have been 50 states, despite the help their numbers have had from the extreme gerrymandering in states like North Carolina. — 18 November 2024 (LINK)
Fast Company: "Trump's pick for energy secretary loves fracking so much, he drank its liquid." — 18 November 2024 (LINK)
— In 2019, he drank fracking fluid on camera to demonstrate its safety. Also called frac fluid, that liquid is the mixture of water and chemicals pumped below the earth's surface in order to crack the rocks and unlock natural gas and crude oil. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), however, has said that the chemicals used in fracking formulas are considered hazardous to human health. The process of fracking also contaminates groundwater and pollutes the air, causing health hazards.
What is impoundment? How Trump thinks he can control spending without Congress. — 18 November 2024 (LINK)
— If "recess appointments" are the unlikely and unprecedented way Trump wants to work around the Senate to get his most controversial nominees in charge of Cabinet agencies, "impoundment" is the unlikely way he envisions shrinking the federal government with or without congressional approval. Trump took the time to record a video about impoundment during the Republican primary season, and he promised seizing control over spending from Congress would be a top priority if he was elected. Impoundment occurs when Congress appropriates money that the president then declines to spend. Richard Nixon abused the privilege, according to Congress at the time.
Trump taps Brendan Carr, an Elon Musk-backed critic of big tech, for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. — 18 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 166 media reports (LINK)
Trump picks oil industry CEO and climate change sceptic Chris Wright as Energy Secretary. — 17 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 373 media reports (LINK)
"A cruise company is offering a 4-year journey to escape Donald Trump's presidency": Although the trip doesn't explicitly say that their exclusive offer is directly a result of the aftermath of the election, the getaway is for the duration of a full presidential term. — 17 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news:80 media reports (LINK)
AP: U.S. House elections produced a stalemate: the chamber's exact partisan divide is still to be determined as votes are tallied in a handful of states. Can Republicans figure out how to work with a thin majority? — 16 November 2024 (LINK)
— Republicans and Democrats have each flipped seven seats, while just eight incumbents nationwide have lost their races. "Democrats will actually have increased the number of seats in the new Congress." Trump is on track to win the popular vote for the first time. House Republicans held onto the majority largely thanks to two seats the party flipped in Pennsylvania, as well as three more that were redistricted by the GOP-controlled North Carolina General Assembly to favor their party.
— Democrats did best in New York, where they flipped three seats. They also picked up two redistricted seats, in Louisiana and Alabama, that were ordered by courts to ensure fair representation for Black voters. FairVote estimates that 85% of House seats are now safe for one party — the highest percentage it has tracked in two decades.
Two Trump cabinet choices in jeopardy over sexual misconduct allegations: Pete Hegseth as defence secretary and Matt Gaetz as attorney general. — 15 November 2024 (LINK)
Heather Cox Richardson: Biden's "largest investment in our nation's infrastructure in a generation". — 15 November 2024 (LINK)
— In the past three years, the Biden administration launched more than 66,000 projects across the country, repairing 196,000 miles of roads and 11,400 bridges, as well as replacing 367,000 lead pipes and modernizing ports and airports. Today the administration announced an additional $1.5 billion in funding for railroads along the Northeast Corridor, which carries five times more passengers a day than all the flights between Washington, D.C., and New York City.
— In his first term, Trump had promised a bill to address the country's long-neglected infrastructure, but his inability to get that done made "infrastructure week" a joke. Biden got a major bill passed, but while the administration nicknamed the law the "Big Deal," Biden got very little credit for it politically. Republicans who had voted against the measure took credit for the projects it funded, and voters seemed not to factor in the jobs and improvements it brought when they went to the polls last week.
Trump promise to repeal Biden climate policies could cost US billions, report finds. — 14 November 2024 (LINK)
— It threatens to push $80bn of investment to other countries and cost the US up to $50bn in lost exports, the analysis found, surrendering ground to China and other emerging powers in the race to build electric cars, batteries, solar and wind energy for the world.
The House now belongs to the GOP. Here's what party leaders say they'll do first. — 14 November 2024 (LINK)
Trump to nominate his criminal defense lawyer for deputy attorney general. — 14 November 2024 (LINK)
Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump chooses RFK Jr. to lead HHS — (LINK)
US debt 'set to explode' under Trump — top bankers at the Institute of International Finance (IIF): "The incoming president's plan to slash taxes without equal cuts to spending would push US national debt up from around 100pc of GDP today to more than 135pc in a decade's time." — 13 November 2024 (LINK)
Bank of America stock is on fire post Trump win. — 13 November 2024 (LINK)
X lost record number of users after U.S. election day. — 13 November 2024 (LINK)
Trump's defence choice of Fox News host Pete Hegseth stuns the Pentagon and raises questions about his experience. — 13 November 2024 (LINK)
Trump's new EPA pick wants to make the U.S. the AI 'capital of the world'. — 12 November 2024 (LINK)
Judge defers Trump immunity decision in Stormy Daniels hush money case until 19 November. — 12 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 265 media reports (LINK)
Russia denies Trump call with Putin urging restraint in Ukraine. — 11 November 2024 (LINK)
— The call, which was first reported by the Washington Post on 10 November, is said to have happened on Thursday.
