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Trump selects financier Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary  BBC.com

Trump names Dr.

Jonathan Last: “Yesterday the

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she would fight a transgender woman — such as Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) — if she comes across her in the bathroom, Politico reports.
Said Greene: “It’s pretty aggressive for biological men to be invading our spaces.”

“Texas education officials approved in an initial vote on Tuesday a new elementary school curriculum that infuses material drawn from the Bible into reading and language arts lessons, a contentious move that would test the limits of religion’s presence in public education,” the New York Times reports.

“The conflicting goals of President-elect Donald Trump’s economic agenda have been playing out as he debates who to choose as his Treasury secretary, a job that will entail steering tax cuts through Congress, leading trade talks with China and overseeing the $30 trillion U.S. bond market,” the New York Times reports.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday called for a halt in confirming President Joe Biden’s nominees to the federal judiciary until he takes office, accusing Democrats of “trying to stack the courts,” ABC News reports.
Said Trump: “The Democrats are trying to stack the Courts with Radical Left Judges on their way out the door…  No more Judges confirmed before Inauguration Day!”

Former President Bill Clinton says in his new book that he wishes he “had never met” Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sexual offender, the Washington Examiner reports.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance will be on Capitol Hill this week arranging meetings between some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and key Republican senators who could determine their confirmations, Politico reports.

“President-elect Donald Trump is considering giving Russell Vought, his previous Office of Management and Budget director, his old job back,” Politico reports.
“Vought, a prominent contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 initiative to draft proposals for a second Trump administration, is among the people being seriously considered for the post.”