Vance vies for Trump cabinet support; House speaker announces policy banning trans women from some Capitol bathrooms – live

Senate judiciary committee Democrats have officially requested the FBI file on Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general.

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In a letter obtained by Politico sent to FBI director Christopher Wray, Democratic members of the committee requested the evidentiary file from law enforcement’s probe into whether Gaetz engaged in child sex trafficking.

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“In order for the Senate to perform its constitutional duty in this instance, we must be able to thoroughly review all relevant materials that speak to the credibility of these serious allegations against Mr. Gaetz,” the letter reads.

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All panel Democrats except Georgia senator Jon Ossoff signed the letter, according to Politico.

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House speaker Mike Johnson has announced that transgender women are not permitted to use women’s bathrooms in the Capitol building.

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“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson said in a statement on Wednesday.

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“It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.

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“Women deserve women’s only spaces,” his statement concluded.

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Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the judge overseeing his Manhattan hush-money criminal case for permission to make yet another play for dismissal, arguing that throwing out the case was necessary “in order to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power” following his election victory.

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Todd Blanche, Trump’s lead attorney and pick for deputy US attorney general, and Emil Bove, his choice for principal associate deputy attorney general, railed against the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, in their missive to Judge Juan Merchan, which was made public Wednesday.

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Bragg’s office, they complained, “appears not to yet be ready to dismiss this politically-motivated and fatally flawed case, which is what is mandated by the law and will happen as justice takes its course”.

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They noted that the justice department (DoJ) is poised to toss federal cases against Trump, given DoJ policy that bars prosecuting sitting presidents.

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“As in those cases, dismissal is necessary here,” their filing contended. “Just as a sitting President is completely immune from any criminal process, so too is President Trump as President-elect.”

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The attorneys requested a 20 December deadline for filing their pitch on why Trump’s election merits dismissal of this case.

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Vice president-elect JD Vance has said that Donald Trump “deserves a cabinet that is loyal to the agenda he was elected to implement.”

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In a post to X, Vance credited Trump’s “major” electoral victory for the Senate’s Republican majority.

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“His coattails turned a 49-51 senate to a 53-47 senate,” Vance wrote.

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As we reported earlier, Vance is on Capitol Hill with Trump’s pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, as well as Marco Rubio, Trump’s choice for secretary of state, for meetings with key Republican Senators involved in the Cabinet confirmation process.

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Donald Trump has named his former acting attorney general, Matthew G Whitaker, to be the US ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) in his upcoming administration.

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“Matt is a strong warrior and loyal Patriot, who will ensure the United States’ interests are advanced and defended,” Trump said in a statement on Wednesday.

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“Matt will strengthen relationships with our NATO Allies, and stand firm in the face of threats to Peace and Stability – He will put AMERICA FIRST.”

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Whitaker served as acting attorney general in the first Trump administration after Jeff Sessions was ousted in 2018. He was seen as a partisan loyalist who was critical of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Washington Post reports.

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He was previously seen as a contender for Trump’s attorney general, according to reports, and said the president-elect is “going to want someone that he knows, likes and trusts”.

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South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, the outgoing top Republican on the House judiciary committee, was the first to meet with vice president-elect JD Vance and Trump’s pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, at the Capitol this morning.

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Graham said he had a “good meeting” with Vance and Gaetz and described the confirmation process for Gaetz as becoming a “lynch mob”.

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The former Florida congressman “will be held to account in the confirmation process. He deserves his chance to make his argument why (he) should be attorney general,” Graham told reporters after the meeting.

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“I’m not going to be part of a process that leaks information that shouldn’t be leaked. I’m not going to legitimize the process to destroy the man, because people don’t like his politics,” he added.

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Vice president-elect JD Vance has arrived at the Capitol this morning where he will spend the week arranging meetings between Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, and key Republican senators involved in their confirmation process.

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Vance will be on Capitol Hill today to usher Gaetz, Trump’s pick for attorney general, around Senate offices as the House ethics committee meets to vote on releasing a report examining allegations of sexual misconduct against the former congressman, the Washington Post reports.

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Vance is expected to sit in on some of the meetings, with CNN reporting that Louisiana senator John Kennedy, a member of the Senate judiciary committee, plans to meet with Gaetz and Vance today.

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New York representative Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick to serve as the ambassador to the UN, and Doug Collins, Trump’s pick for secretary of veterans affairs, will also meet with senators this week, according to CNN.

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The US defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, has confirmed the Biden administration will allow Ukraine to use US-supplied antipersonnel landmines to help fight off Russian forces, a further step after Washington granted Kyiv permission to use long-range missiles inside Russia.

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Austin, speaking to reporters in Laos on Wednesday, said the shift in Washington’s policy on antipersonnel landmines for Ukraine follows changing tactics by the Russians, according to the AP.

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Russian ground troops are leading the movement on the battlefield, Austin said, so Ukraine has “a need for things that can help slow down that effort on the part of the Russians”.

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As we reported earlier, the Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov accused the US of prolonging the war in Ukraine and of “doing everything they can to do so”.

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The US has temporarily closed its embassy in Kyiv after receiving warning of a “potential significant air attack”, advising American citizens to be prepared to move immediately to a shelter in the event of an air raid warning.

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Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary, said women in the US military “make us stronger” as he prepares to shortly exit the top military post after four years.

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“I have spent 41 years in uniform, three long tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, and everywhere I went on a battlefield, there were women in our formation,” Austin said in an interview with NBC News published this morning.

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“I would tell you that, you know, our women are the finest troops in the world. Quite frankly, some of the finest in the world.”

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His comments came after Donald Trump’s announcement that he had picked Pete Hegseth, a national guard veteran and Fox News presenter, to succeed Austin as secretary of defense.

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Hegseth has made it clear, in his own book and in interviews, that he believes men and women should not serve together in combat units. During a podcast released this month, he said the military “should not have women in combat roles” and that “men in those positions are more capable”.

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Austin, during his interview, argued that women “do impact readiness. They make us better. They make us stronger.”

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However he did not weigh in on what he thinks about Trump’s choice of Hegseth, only saying that the president-elect “has the opportunity to nominate anyone that he chooses for any position, and certainly, you know, we respect that”.

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US envoy Amos Hochstein said he will travel to Israel on Wednesday to try to secure a ceasefire ending the war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah group after declaring additional progress in talks in Beirut.

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Hochstein, who arrived a day earlier in Beirut, said he saw a “real opportunity” to end the conflict after the Lebanese government and Hezbollah agreed to a US ceasefire proposal, although with some comments.

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Reuters reports that the diplomacy aims to end a conflict that has inflicted massive devastation in Lebanon since Israel went on the offensive against Hezbollah in September.

n Although diplomacy to end the Gaza war has largely stalled, the Biden administration aims to seal a ceasefire in the parallel conflict in Lebanon before Donald Trump takes office in January.

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“We are going to work with the incoming administration. We’re already going to be discussing this with them. They will be fully aware of what we’re doing,” Hochstein said.

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As he did in his first term, US president-elect Donald Trump is likely in January to invoke the “global gag rule”, officially called the Mexico City policy, which bans US federal funding for NGOs in foreign countries that provide abortion services or abortion advocacy.

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The gag rule has a 40-year history of being applied by Republican presidents and rescinded by Democratic presidents. Every GOP president since the mid-1980s has invoked the rule, reports the Associated Press.

n As one of his first acts as president in 2017, Trump expanded the rule to the extent that foreign NGOs were cut off from about $600m in US family planning funds and more than $11bn in US global health aid between 2017 and 2018 alone, according to the US Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, reports the AP.

n The money – much of it intended for Africa – covered efforts such as preventing malaria and tuberculosis, providing water and sanitation, and distributing health information and contraception, which might also have repercussions for HIV prevention.

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The policy stipulates that foreign NGOs that receive US government funding must agree to stop abortion-related activities, including discussing it as a family planning option — even when they are using non-US government funds for such activities.

n The gag-rule policy “leads to more unintended, unwanted, unsupportable pregnancies and therefore an increase in abortion,” said Catriona Macleod, a professor of psychology at South Africa’s Rhodes University.

n “This legislation does not protect life … it’s been called America’s deadly export,” said Macleod, who heads the university’s studies in sexuality and reproduction.

Trump’s transition team did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.

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Donald Trump is keeping his controversial adviser Kash Patel in the running to be the next FBI director, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the transition team conducted interviews for the role on Monday night at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club.

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The existence of the interviews, made public in a since-deleted post by the vice president-elect JD Vance, underscored the intent to fire the current FBI director, Christopher Wray, years before his current term is up.

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Vance revealed that he and Trump had been interviewing finalists for FBI director in a post responding to criticism he received for missing a Senate vote last night that confirmed one of Joe Biden’s nominees for the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit.

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“When this 11th circuit vote happened, I was meeting President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI director,” Vance wrote.

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Trump has a special interest in the FBI, having fired James Comey as director in 2017 over his refusal to close the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and then complaining about perceived disloyalty from Wray.

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Patel’s continued position as a top candidate for the role makes clear Trump’s determination to install loyalists in key national security and law enforcement positions, as well as the support Patel has built up among key Trump allies.

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The push for Patel – who has frequently railed against the “deep state” – has come from some of the longest-serving Trump advisers, notably those close to former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, a faction that got Trump’s personal lawyers picked for top justice department roles.

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That faction has also suggested to Trump in recent days that if Patel gets passed over for the director role, he should be given the deputy FBI director position, one of the people said – a powerful job that helps run the bureau day to day and is crucially not subject to Senate confirmation.

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The House ethics committee is expected to meet on Wednesday to vote on releasing a report examining allegations of sexual misconduct against former Republican representative Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the US justice department.

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The panel has previously said it was investigating claims that Gaetz “may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift”.

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The justice department launched its own inquiry into accusations that Gaetz engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, but the department closed its investigation last year without filing charges. Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations.

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Two women testified to congressional investigators that Gaetz paid them for sex and that he was seen having sex with the 17-year-old, a lawyer for the women has said.

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As the ethics committee is evenly split between the two parties, it would take only one Republican siding with every Democrat on the panel to have the report released. But prominent Republicans, including House speaker Mike Johnson, have cautioned against releasing the report on Gaetz, who resigned his seat immediately after Trump announced his nomination as attorney general.

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“I think that would be a Pandora’s box,” Johnson told CNN on Sunday. “I don’t think we want the House ethics committee using all of its vast resources and powers to go after private citizens, and that’s what Matt Gaetz is now.”

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But other Republicans, including Senator Markwayne Mullin, have suggested the report should be at least made available to the senators who will vote on confirming Gaetz’s nomination.

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“I believe the Senate should have access to that,” Mullin told NBC News on Sunday. “Now, should it be released to the public or not? I guess that will be part of the negotiations. But that should be definitely part of our decision-making.”

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Throughout his campaign, president-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists.”

n He has picked Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive, to lead the department. But like many conservative politicians before him, Trump has called for dismantling the department altogether – a cumbersome task that likely would require action from Congress.

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The Associated Press has this short explainer on what that would mean:

The agency’s main role is financial. Annually, it distributes billions in federal money to colleges and schools and manages the federal student loan portfolio. Closing the department would mean redistributing each of those duties to another agency. The education department also plays an important regulatory role in services for students, ranging from those with disabilities to low-income and homeless kids.

n Indeed, federal education money is central to Trump’s plans for colleges and schools. Trump has vowed to cut off federal money for schools and colleges that push “critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content” and to reward states and schools that end teacher tenure and enact universal school choice programs.

n Federal funding makes up a relatively small portion of public school budgets – roughly 14%. Colleges and universities are more reliant on it, through research grants along with federal financial aid that helps students pay their tuition.

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The president of the National Education Association (NEA) said that the president-elect’s decision to name Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary in his upcoming administration, shows “that he could not care less about our students’ futures”.

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In a statement released on Tuesday after Donald Trump’s announcement, Becky Pringle criticised the naming of McMahon, the billionaire co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and called on the Senate to reject “Trump’s unqualified nominee”. She warned that “McMahon’s only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools”.

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Pringle wrote:

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Every student – no matter where they live, how much their family earns, or the color of their skin – deserves the opportunity, resources, and support they need to grow into their full brilliance. In every community across this country parents and educators are partners in this effort.

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By selecting Linda McMahon, Donald Trump is showing that he could not care less about our students’ futures. Rather than working to strengthen public schools, expand learning opportunities for students, and support educators, McMahon’s only mission is to eliminate the Department of Education and take away taxpayer dollars from public schools, where 90% of students – and 95% of students with disabilities – learn, and give them to unaccountable and discriminatory private schools.

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During his first term, Donald Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to undermine and ultimately privatize public schools through vouchers. Now, he and Linda McMahon are back at it with their extreme Project 2025 proposal to eliminate the Department of Education, steal resources for our most vulnerable students, increase class sizes, cut job training programs, make higher education more expensive and out of reach for middle class families, take away special education services for disabled students, and put student civil rights protections at risk.

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Parents and educators will stand together to support students and reject the harmful, outlandish, and insulting policies being pushed by the Trump administration. They will make their voices heard, just as they did by resoundingly defeating vouchers in states like Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska.

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The Department of education plays such a critical role in the success of each and every student in this country.

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The Senate must stand up for our students and reject Donald Trump’s unqualified nominee, Linda McMahon. Our students and our nation deserve so much better than Betsy DeVos 2.0.”

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In a statement on Tuesday, Trump extolled the “incredible” job McMahon has been doing as transition team co-chair and said:

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As Secretary of Education, Linda will fight tirelessly to expand ‘Choice’ to every State in America, and empower parents to make the best Education decisions for their families. … We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort.”

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More on this story in a moment, but first, here are some other key developments

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  Trump has chosen Mehmet Oz, best known for starring in his eponymous daytime talkshow for more than a decade and leaning heavily into Trumpism during his failed 2022 run for a Pennsylvania Senate seat, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The cardiothoracic surgeon, who faced immense backlash from the medical and scientific communities for pushing misinformation at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, will oversee the agency that operates on a $2.6tn annual budget and provides healthcare to more than 100 million people.

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  Trump is keeping his controversial adviser Kash Patel in the running to be the next FBI director, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the transition team conducted interviews for the role on Monday night at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club. The existence of the interviews, made public in a since-deleted post by the vice president-elect JD Vance, underscored the intent to fire the current FBI director, Christopher Wray, years before his current term is up.

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  Russia on Wednesday accused the US of prolonging the “war in Ukraine” by stepping up weapons deliveries to Kyiv ahead of Trump’s return to the White House. Both Moscow and Kyiv are jockeying to secure an upper hand on the battlefield ahead of Trump assuming office in January 2025.

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  Women’s health advocates in Africa are worried that Trump will again invoke the so-called global gag rule, a policy that cuts off US government funding for groups that offer abortion-related services. The gag rule has been imposed by all Republican presidents since 1984. In 2017, Trump expanded it, cutting foreign NGOs off not only from family planning money, but from broader US global health assistance covering malaria and tuberculosis prevention, water and sanitation, and the distribution of health information.

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  Australia’s ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd, says Australia is ‘ready’ for a second Trump presidency. In a speech to the Sydney International Strategy Forum via video link, Rudd said: “The team here at the embassy and the government of Australia are ready to work closely with the new Trump administration to continue to realise the benefits of what is a very strong economic and security partnership.”

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Linda McMahon, Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary, incorrectly claimed in 2009 that she had a bachelor’s degree in education on a questionnaire for a position on the Connecticut state board of education, according to reports.

The Washington Post reports that McMahon said at the time that she mistakenly thought her degree was in education because she did a semester of student teaching.

McMahon resigned from the state education board after the Hartford Courant told her it intended to write about the error, the paper reported.

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Senate Republicans must soon consider several of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks whose nominations were met with intense criticism: Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense and Robert F Kennedy Jr as secretary of health and human services.

Each of those cabinet announcements landed with somewhat of a thud on Capitol Hill, raising questions about whether the nominees will be able to muster the majority-level support needed in the Senate to get confirmed.

But the president-elect has proposed an archaic and in recent years little-used mechanism to get his nominees installed without Senate confirmation: recess appointments.

If Trump pursues a strategy of recess appointments, it could severely curtail the Senate’s power to serve as a check on the new president’s nominations and allow controversial picks to move forward.

Here’s everything to know about recess appointments.

Senate judiciary committee Democrats officially request FBI file on Gaetz

Senate judiciary committee Democrats have officially requested the FBI file on Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general.

In a letter obtained by Politico sent to FBI director Christopher Wray, Democratic members of the committee requested the evidentiary file from law enforcement’s probe into whether Gaetz engaged in child sex trafficking.

“In order for the Senate to perform its constitutional duty in this instance, we must be able to thoroughly review all relevant materials that speak to the credibility of these serious allegations against Mr. Gaetz,” the letter reads.

All panel Democrats except Georgia senator Jon Ossoff signed the letter, according to Politico.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s announcement barring transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol enacts into policy a push led by the Republican representative Nancy Mace.

Mace has led the charge against banning Sarah McBride, who is due to be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress, from using the bathroom that corresponds with her gender identity.

“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say. I mean, this is a biological man,” Mace told reporters on Monday, according to CNN. She added that McBride “does not belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, period, full stop”.

McBride responded on X by saying the issue was a distraction.

“Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness,” she wrote on X.

Mace’s bill came as Republicans have attacked transgender people as part of a broader political culture war strategy, limiting what bathrooms they can use and the youth sports teams they can play on.

Fourteen states currently have laws that prohibit transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ rights group.

Speaker Johnson announces policy banning trans women from some bathrooms in Capitol building

House speaker Mike Johnson has announced that transgender women are not permitted to use women’s bathrooms in the Capitol building.

“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson said in a statement on Wednesday.

“It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.

“Women deserve women’s only spaces,” his statement concluded.

As we reported earlier, Donald Trump has announced he has chosen the former acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, as his nominee to serve as US ambassador to Nato.

Trump’s choice is an unusual one, Associated Press writes, given that Whitaker’s background is in law enforcement and not in foreign policy.

The Nato post is a particularly sensitive one given Trump’s relationship with the alliance. During his first term, Trump criticized Nato and accused European members of not meeting their commitments to spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense.

Earlier this year, Trump warned Nato allies that if re-elected, he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that are “delinquent”.

“‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’” Trump said. “‘No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay. You gotta pay your bills.’”

Whitaker has been actively involved with the America First Policy Institute, a right-leaning think tank that has been working closely with Trump’s campaign to shape policy for his second term, Reuters writes.

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The letter by Donald Trump’s lawyers asking Judge Juan Merchan for permission to make yet another play for dismissal came after prosecutors told the court that they planned on fighting back against Trump’s expected push for its dismissal following his win.

The Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office contended that Merchan should schedule a timeline for Trump’s expected motion to dismiss, which prosecutors said they “intend to oppose”. They also said other proceedings in this case should be postponed until the dismissal issue is determined.

These latest developments suggest that Trump’s scheduled 26 November sentencing in his Manhattan criminal hush-money case is all but certainly postponed, given the litany of issues to be litigated.

Trump lawyers seek dismissal of hush-money case on immunity grounds

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Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the judge overseeing his Manhattan hush-money criminal case for permission to make yet another play for dismissal, arguing that throwing out the case was necessary “in order to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power” following his election victory.

Todd Blanche, Trump’s lead attorney and pick for deputy US attorney general, and Emil Bove, his choice for principal associate deputy attorney general, railed against the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, in their missive to Judge Juan Merchan, which was made public Wednesday.

Bragg’s office, they complained, “appears not to yet be ready to dismiss this politically-motivated and fatally flawed case, which is what is mandated by the law and will happen as justice takes its course”.

They noted that the justice department (DoJ) is poised to toss federal cases against Trump, given DoJ policy that bars prosecuting sitting presidents.

“As in those cases, dismissal is necessary here,” their filing contended. “Just as a sitting President is completely immune from any criminal process, so too is President Trump as President-elect.”

The attorneys requested a 20 December deadline for filing their pitch on why Trump’s election merits dismissal of this case.

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House Republicans have renewed a push to pass a bill that would allow the treasury department to strip non-profit groups it deems to be supporting “terrorism” of their tax-exempt status.

The so-called “non-profit killer” bill would give the government broad powers to sanction civil society organizations. Progressive groups have rallied in opposition to the bill in recent days, arguing that Donald Trump’s administration could invoke it to punish his political opponents.

The bill, titled Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, failed to clear the House of Representatives last week after members attempted to fast-track it by suspending House rules, which would have required a supermajority to pass.

When it failed, Republicans brought it back through the House rules committee – paving the way for a floor vote, this time requiring only a simple majority.

When it was first introduced, progressive activists warned that the bill would be used to crack down on Palestinian advocacy groups, which politicians frequently accuse of supporting Hamas – a US-designated terrorist organization.

The measure “would be profoundly damaging to all sorts of non-profits”, said American Civil Liberties Union federal policy counsel Kia Hamadanchy.

“There’s the stigma of being called a terrorist-supporting organization, there are banks who may not want to transact with you once you have that status, there are donors who may not want to give you money because they’re afraid, themselves, of being called supporters of terrorism.”

Trump ‘deserves a cabinet that is loyal’, says Vance

Vice president-elect JD Vance has said that Donald Trump “deserves a cabinet that is loyal to the agenda he was elected to implement.”

In a post to X, Vance credited Trump’s “major” electoral victory for the Senate’s Republican majority.

“His coattails turned a 49-51 senate to a 53-47 senate,” Vance wrote.

As we reported earlier, Vance is on Capitol Hill with Trump’s pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, as well as Marco Rubio, Trump’s choice for secretary of state, for meetings with key Republican Senators involved in the Cabinet confirmation process.

Josh Hawley, the Republican senator from Missouri, held a meeting with vice president-elect JD Vance and Matt Gaetz at the Capitol this morning, a meeting he described as “good”.

Scripps News reports that Hawley said Gaetz outlined his vision for the Justice Department’s house ethics investigation.

“The real question is, is Gaetz going to have the opportunity to answer this in a forum that is reasonable?” Hawley reportedly said.

CNN reports that Hawley said a confirmation hearing would allow Gaetz to answer questions about misconduct allegations against him. “My view is that we ought to move forward with this, do the hearing, let him respond to everything under oath,” Hawley said. “Give him a shot.”

“He’s denied everything, but the hearing is an opportunity for him to under oath in front of everybody, to walk through it,” he reportedly added.

Trump picks Matthew Whitaker for US ambassador to Nato

Donald Trump has named his former acting attorney general, Matthew G Whitaker, to be the US ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) in his upcoming administration.

“Matt is a strong warrior and loyal Patriot, who will ensure the United States’ interests are advanced and defended,” Trump said in a statement on Wednesday.

“Matt will strengthen relationships with our NATO Allies, and stand firm in the face of threats to Peace and Stability – He will put AMERICA FIRST.”

Whitaker served as acting attorney general in the first Trump administration after Jeff Sessions was ousted in 2018. He was seen as a partisan loyalist who was critical of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Washington Post reports.

He was previously seen as a contender for Trump’s attorney general, according to reports, and said the president-elect is “going to want someone that he knows, likes and trusts”.

Vice president-elect JD Vance, who is at Capitol Hill today to shore up support for Matt Gaetz, has been tasked as the main liaison between the Trump-Vance transition team and Republican senators who could make or break Gaetz’s nomination as attorney general.

Vance is doing a lot of” the outreach “on the Senate side,” the Hill quoted one GOP senator as saying.

“I think he’s worked through the whole Judiciary Committee. He’s calling folks, trying to get a sense of where things are.”

Gaetz ‘deserves a chance to make his argument why he should be attorney general,’ says Lindsey Graham

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, the outgoing top Republican on the House judiciary committee, was the first to meet with vice president-elect JD Vance and Trump’s pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, at the Capitol this morning.

Graham said he had a “good meeting” with Vance and Gaetz and described the confirmation process for Gaetz as becoming a “lynch mob”.

The former Florida congressman “will be held to account in the confirmation process. He deserves his chance to make his argument why (he) should be attorney general,” Graham told reporters after the meeting.

“I’m not going to be part of a process that leaks information that shouldn’t be leaked. I’m not going to legitimize the process to destroy the man, because people don’t like his politics,” he added.

American Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group, filed a motion on Tuesday night in federal court to compel the Justice Department to release all records related to its investigation off the former congressman Matt Gaetz, who Donald Trump has nominated to serve as his attorney general.

The group has been trying to get the documents since last year, when the Justice Department ended its inquiry into accusations that Gaetz engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.

The department closed its investigation without filing charges, and Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations.

In its motion, American Oversight said that releasing the documents is “essential for transparency, accountability, and public trust”, arguing that the “American people deserve to know the facts before the Senate votes on his nomination.”

“Sex trafficking, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power are not the kind of questions that should hang over the head of someone being considered for US attorney general,” the watchdog’s executive director, Chioma Chukwu, said.