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“Top CEOs and their companies are pledging to donate millions of dollars to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, as they seek to get on his good side and make inroads before he takes office,” CNBC reports.

Associated Press: “With Donald Trump returning to the White House, there is intense interest in how the Republican will carry out his immigration agenda, including a campaign pledge of mass deportations.” “His priorities could run into the realities faced by agents focused on enforcement and removals, including the unit in New York that offered The Associated Press a glimpse into its operations: The number of people already on its lists to target eclipses the number of officers available to do the work.”

“As Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Scott Turner may soon oversee the nation’s efforts to build affordable apartments, protect poor tenants and aid the homeless. As a lawmaker in the Texas House of Representatives, Turner voted against those very initiatives,” ProPublica reports. “Turner supported a bill ensuring landlords could refuse apartments to applicants because they received federal housing assistance.

Politico: “Democrats are starting to cobble together a playbook for the second Trump era: Mock Republicans for their dysfunction, attack the incoming president for being a step behind Elon Musk and keep praising themselves as the adults in the room.”

“I just felt like, he tried to kill me once. I’m not available for it again.” — Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH), quoted by Roll Call, on Donald Trump, the Jan. 6 insurrection and one of the reasons she decided to retire.

New York Times: “A look at the people who influence the world’s richest man, and those who stand to gain from their association with him now.”