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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.
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 …
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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 …
Jesse Singal / New York Magazine:
The Times May Have Launched a False Rumor About Rick Perry  —  Yesterday, the New York Times posted a story by Coral Davenport and David Sanger about Donald Trump's energy secretary nominee, former Texas governor Rick Perry, that quickly went viral.  That's because the article …
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.
Darius Dixon / Politico:
Perry: ‘I regret’ call to scrap Energy Department
Discussion: ABC News, The Week and Vox
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
That New York Times hit piece on Perry was unsubstantiated garbage
Discussion: Hot Air
Jeff Brady / NPR:
In Rick Perry Energy Hearing, Questions Likely On Nuclear Security, Environment
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
New York Times Faces Backlash After Sole Source Repudiates Anti-Rick Perry Story
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
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.
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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.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Spicer on Trump going to hotel: 'Shouldn't be a shocker'  —  President-elect Donald Trump's decision to spend time at his Washington, D.C., hotel does not represent a move to profit off the presidency and does not blur the lines between his business and his administration, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday.
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 …
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Lauren Pearle / ABC News:
Treasury Pick Exchanges Barbs With Senators at Hearing
Discussion: Politico
Ylan Q. Mui / Washington Post:
Treasury nominee initially omitted more than $100 million from disclosures, Democratic memo says
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Hard-Luck Hillary Clinton's Second Case of the Inaugural Blues  —  How hard it must be for Hillary Clinton to sit next to Bill on the inaugural platform for the second time as an also-ran.  She's a good soldier, and she'll carry it off with the grace of a former First Lady …
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Jonathan Turley / USA Today:   Trump is our president: Jonathan Turley
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
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.
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 …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer grills Trump on ‘swamp cabinet’  —  's nominees on Wednesday, saying the president-elect is setting up a “swamp cabinet.”  —  “This is a swamp cabinet full of bankers and billionaires,” Schumer told reporters at his weekly press conference.  —  The Senate minority leader …
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Bloomberg:
Democrats Could Help Confirm Up to Four Trump Nominees Friday
Discussion: Politico and RedState
Andrew Gomes / Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Facebook's Zuckerberg sues to force land sales  —  When Facebook's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg paid around $100 million for 700 acres of rural beachfront land on Kauai two years ago to create what Forbes magazine described as a secluded family sanctuary, he actually acquired a not-so-secluded property.
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 …
Bloomberg:
Russia Fears That Trump Won't Be Such a Great Deal After All  —  Top officials fret furor in U.S. over hacking could hurt thaw  —  Doubts about Trump hints that sanctions could be eased  —  Russia is giving Donald Trump the kind of fawning television coverage usually reserved for Vladimir Putin …
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
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
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.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republicans look to avoid YouTube moments in fight over Obamacare repeal … After Sen. Thom Tillis said he would be talking to constituents live on Facebook Wednesday, more than 200 people submitted questions — many of them pointed queries about his views on health care.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Wendy R. Sherman / USA Today:
Women's March will send message to Trump: Wendy Sherman  —  We're here.  We're united.  We'll never stop fighting for women and against misogyny.  —  A day after Donald Trump is inaugurated, thousands of women will descend on Washington for a march — a time-honored tribute …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: My Cabinet has ‘highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled’  —  President-elect Donald Trump bragged Thursday that his incoming Cabinet has “by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled.”  —  Trump was speaking at a congressional leadership luncheon held inside his Trump International Hotel …
 
 
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
On Eve of Inauguration, Americans Expect Nation's Deep Political Divisions to Persist
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Will Robinson / TIME:
Listen to Fiona Apple's Donald Trump Protest Anthem Tiny Hands
Discussion: RedState
Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘He Has This Deep Fear That He Is Not a Legitimate President’
Discussion: Scripting News
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The End of the Beginning  —  Sic Transit the Transition
Lisa Lerer / Associated Press:
Even before taking office, Trump has changed the presidency
 Earlier Items: 
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: OpenMarket and 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
CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll shows last-minute love for Obamacare
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Democrats in the Wilderness
Discussion: neo-neocon
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
Trump's threat to the liberal ‘deep state’
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump's nuclear wake-up call
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
 

 
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