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Lawyer tells ABC News his 2 clients told House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them for sex  

“Just a week after winning several of the nation’s largest Arab-majority cities, President-elect Donald Trump has filled top administration posts with staunch Israel supporters, including an ambassador to Israel who has claimed ‘there is no such thing as Palestinians,'” the AP reports.

“The White House is expected to request over $98 billion in disaster relief funds from Congress on Monday,” Axios reports.
“The emergency request from the White House comes as Congress must address a government funding lapse at the end of the year.”

“Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor who for the last year has served as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, on Monday became the first announced candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee,” the New York Times reports.
“The entrance of Mr. O’Malley, 61, kicks off a race that is expected to have several candidates running to lead a party in turmoil after this year’s elections.”

“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled at a private event Sunday night that he opposes President-elect Donald Trump’s demand for recess appointments,” Punchbowl News reports.

Hedge-fund titan Ken Griffin said he’s anxious about Donald Trump’s potential tariff policies, but that the U.S. economy is going back to “the business of business” now that he’s returning to the White House, Bloomberg reports.
Earlier this year, Griffin called Trump’s tariff policies “regretful,” but said he thought a Trump administration would be good for markets.

Trump Media, the company whose largest shareholder is President-elect Donald Trump, is in “advanced talks” to buy a crypto trading platform, CNBC reports.

“President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Will Scharf as the next White House staff secretary,” Haaretz reports.

“House Ethics Chair Michael Guest said Monday that his panel will make its own decision about releasing the report into Matt Gaetz, regardless of Speaker Mike Johnson’s opinion that it should be kept under wraps,” Politico reports.

“News influencers — people with at least 100,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X or YouTube who regularly post about current events — are more likely to identify with the political right than the left, a