House Gop Passes Bill Rebuking Obama Immigration Actions

“President-elect Donald Trump is building his second administration at a breakneck speed, announcing his choices for nearly all of the roughly two dozen top-tier nominations, including Cabinet posts, at earlier dates than he did when starting his first term. It’s a sign not only that Trump’s team has more experience than it did in 2016, but also that it has a much more defined sense of what it wants: loyalty,” NBC News reports. “The expedited pace, however, has not come without setbacks and intrigue.

“Canada and its prime minister, Justin Trudeau, have a Donald Trump problem,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The pair had an at-times rocky relationship during Trump’s first term in the White House, and the president-elect couldn’t resist getting in a dig last week during their impromptu meeting over dinner at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate.” “Trudeau was complaining about the impact tariffs would have on Canada’s economy, according to people at the dinner, when Trump interjected.

“Amused observers have long dismissed Elon Musk’s dream to colonize Mars as unserious science fiction. But in his pursuit of the Red Planet, Musk has managed to build a deadly serious business with vast military consequences,” the Washington Post reports. “Security experts say SpaceX has leapfrogged so far ahead in several critical technologies that it could deter major rivals like China from engaging in a war with the United States — or tip the balance if one breaks out.

“President-elect Donald Trump, a lifelong teetotaler whose brother struggled with alcoholism and died at 42, was shaken by reports about a history of heavy drinking by his choice to lead the Pentagon, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth,” the Washington Post reports. “Trump’s response was to encourage Hegseth, who has said he has never had a drinking problem, to fight for his job.

“President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team still has not sent policy advisers to coordinate with the federal agencies he is preparing to take over, delaying preparations that could be key to executing his ambitious agenda,” Politico reports. “That puts Trump officials nearly a month behind their recent predecessors, who began what is known as the ‘agency review’ process — meeting with existing agency staff and getting briefed on major policy issues and challenges — right after the election, to ensure their incoming administrations would be up to speed.

“A move to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea failed on Saturday, just days after the leader’s brief use of martial law hurtled the country into political chaos,” the New York Times reports. “The opposition’s impeachment effort was foiled by the president’s People Power Party, which said shortly before the assembly session that they had agreed to oppose the bill.