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1:50 PM ET, January 19, 2017

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Trump team prepares dramatic cuts  —  is ready to take an ax to government spending.  —  Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday's presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned.
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New York Times:
‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood  —  WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago, Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil …
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
4 Recent Examples Show Why No One Trusts Media Coverage Of Trump  —  One may have hoped that the media would respond to their 2016 failures and resulting lack of credibility by reforming.  Instead, it seems that many in political media are quadrupling down on the mistakes that served …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Darius Dixon / Politico:
Perry: ‘I regret’ call to scrap Energy Department  —  Rick Perry will repudiate his call to eliminate the Energy Department President-elect Donald Trump has tapped him to run when he appears at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday morning.  —  The former Texas governor infamously forgot DOE's name …
Discussion: ABC News, NPR, Associated Press, The Week and Vox
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
New York Times Falsely States Rick Perry Didn't Know What The Department Of Energy Does  —  The New York Times interpreted a quote from a former Trump transition official to mean that Rick Perry, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of energy, didn't fully grasp the role of the Department of Energy.
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:   That New York Times hit piece on Perry was unsubstantiated garbage
Alana Abramson / ABC News:
Rick Perry Regrets Calling for Elimination of Energy Department
Discussion: IJR and Political Wire
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Steven Mnuchin, Treasury Nominee, Failed to Disclose $100 Million in Assets  —  WASHINGTON — Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick to be Treasury secretary, failed to disclose nearly $100 million of his assets on Senate Finance Committee disclosure documents and forgot …
Discussion: Bloomberg, TheStreet.com and Towleroad
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Lauren Pearle / ABC News:
Treasury Pick Exchanges Barbs With Senators at Hearing
Discussion: Politico
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Army: Manning to lose transgender benefits  —  The Army says former Pvt. Chelsea Manning will lose her military healthcare benefits following President Obama's commutation of her prison sentence.  —  “If Pvt. Manning is discharged with a dishonorable discharge, she will lose her entitlement to benefits …
Discussion: RedState and USA Today
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Chelsea Manning to lose transgender benefits with dishonorable discharge
Discussion: Daily Wire and RedState
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Florida man charged with threatening to kill President-elect Trump at his inauguration on Twitter was a close family friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton  — Dominic Puopolo, 51, is being held without bail on charges of threatening harm against a public servant
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:   Hard-Luck Hillary Clinton's Second Case of the Inaugural Blues
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
At Dinner Honoring Mike Pence, Donald Trump Touches Many Bases  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump, in a free-flowing speech Wednesday evening at a dinner honoring his running mate, Mike Pence, jabbed at his new Republican allies and his critics alike, questioned the ethics of …
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Caitlyn Jenner is attending the inauguration  —  President-elect Donald Trump is being urged by some advisers to save at least one dance, as he celebrates his inauguration on Friday night, for a very special Republican lady — Caitlyn Jenner.  —  “It's a brilliant idea,” a member of the incoming administration told me.
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ABC News:
The Note: Inauguration Eve
Discussion: Politico
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Hearing derailed after senator suggests colleague needs Valium … Steven Mnuchin's confirmation hearing quickly went off the rails Thursday as Democrats and Republicans feuded over a GOP lawmaker's quip about giving antidepressants to the panel's top Democrat.  —  Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and twitchy.com
President Barack Obama / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
Thank You  —  Editor's note: President Obama sent this final message to the White House email list this morning.  —  My fellow Americans,  —  It's a long-standing tradition for the sitting president of the United States to leave a parting letter in the Oval Office for the American elected to take his or her place.
Chris Spargo / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Wynn Las Vegas removes all Tom Ford beauty products and sunglasses from the resort in the wake of designer's insulting comments about Melania Trump  — Donald Trump lashed out at Tom Ford in an interview on Wednesday, saying his wife Melania never asked the designer to dress her
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
CNN: Assassinating Trump Could Keep Obama Administration in Power  —  As the nation prepares for the peaceful transfer of power on Inauguration Day, CNN is dreaming up scenarios whereby the Obama administration can keep power if President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence …
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Ivanka Trump Says She Will Not Be Filling In as First Lady in Trump Administration  —  Ivanka Trump dispelled speculation that she would be filling in as a surrogate first lady or occupying the East Wing office of the White House, traditionally reserved for the president's wife.
Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo and AOL
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump's nuclear wake-up call  —  By the time he is sworn in tomorrow, Donald Trump will have undergone a haunting rite of passage: the classified briefing given to every incoming president that explains how he can order a nuclear attack.  —  While neither U.S. nor Trump officials would confirm …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's biggest whoppers … The Fact Checker started during the 2008 campaign and then went on hiatus for the first two years of President Obama's presidency before becoming a permanent Washington Post feature in 2011.  All told, we've fact-checked more than 250 statements by Obama.
Discussion: Althouse
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to announce Sonny Perdue for Agriculture  —  President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be the next Agriculture secretary, transition officials have informed POLITICO, making a pick that's likely to please farm groups while angering those who have called for more diversity in his Cabinet.
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Daughter of close Obama adviser will cover DOJ for CNN  —  More On:  —  CNN has tapped the daughter of President Obama's closest adviser to cover the Department of Justice, The Post has learned.  —  Laura Jarrett quietly joined the network in September as a reporter in the network's Washington bureau.
Discussion: Mediaite
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Democrats in the Wilderness  —  Standing with some 30,000 people in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia the night before the election watching Hillary Clinton speak, exhausted aides were already worrying about what would come next.  They expected her to win, of course …
 
 
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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Meet Ben Swann, the Republican Pizzagate Truther Hosting Atlanta's CBS Nightly News
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
As soon as he is inaugurated, Trump will move to clamp down on immigration
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
$1.9 billion error adds to California deficit projection
Discussion: twitchy.com
Mark Deen / Bloomberg:
Le Pen Moves Into Lead in French Race, Le Monde Poll Shows
Daron Acemoglu / Foreign Policy:
We Are the Last Defense Against Trump
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll shows last-minute love for Obamacare
Bloomberg:
Democrats Could Help Confirm Up to Four Trump Nominees Friday
Discussion: Politico and RedState
Jonathan Turley / USA Today:
Trump is our president: Jonathan Turley
John Kerry / New York Times:
What We Got Right  —  With a new administration taking office …
Discussion: Politico
Bob McManus / New York Post:
Why liberals just love to set terrorists free
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
Trump's threat to the liberal ‘deep state’
Eliot A. Cohen / The American Interest:
Truth in the Age of Trump