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Trump Still Only Has 'Concepts of a Plan' for Health Care

(Daily Beast) Donald Trump promised in September he had “concepts of a plan” to deal with health care. Three months and a successful election later, that’s still all he has. Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press that he had “concepts of a plan that would be better” than Obamacare, though he offered few specifics on what they would look like.

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Miller outlines how Trump administration would prioritize mass deportations

(Axios) Stephen Miller, the incoming White House deputy chief of staff for policy, on Sunday gave new details on the Trump administration's plan for what he called "the largest deportation operation in American history." Miller made clear during his interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that deportations would be Trump's no.1 priority ahead of issues including making reforms to tax and trade and the debt ceiling.tax and trade and the debt ceiling.

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GOP wants 'mandatory training' of government workers to follow Trump's agenda: report

(Raw Story) In a deep dive by the Washington Post on the drastic measures government workers are undergoing to protect their jobs, or the possibility of legal harassment from president-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, Republicans are also making plans to make them fall in line with the president-elect's agenda. According to the report, panicked staffers are looking for jobs in the private sector, seeking to move to different departments that may not be impacted as much with the Post report adding, "...some civil servants are taking out liability insurance to cover lawyers if they’re demoted or fired."

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Trump names conventional foreign policy hands to top State roles

(Politico) President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday unveiled a trio of picks for top State Department roles, elevating conventional national security hands to key policy roles in Foggy Bottom. In a Truth Social post, Trump announced that Christopher Landau, who served as his ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021, is his pick for deputy secretary of State. Trump praised Landau, a lawyer turned diplomat who clerked for Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, as “one of our Country’s great lawyers” and said he will “work closely with our great Secretary of State Nominee, Marco Rubio, to promote our Nation’s security and prosperity through an America First Foreign Policy.”

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'He is souring': Trump was reportedly 'shaken' by latest allegations against nominee

(Alternet) Donald Trump was "shaken" by recent reports about his pick to lead the Pentagon, the Washington Post reported. Trump nominated former Fox and Friends co-host Pete Hegseth to be the Defense Secretary. Allegations have spilled out about the pick, with people accusing Hegseth of sexual assault and of having a drinking problem. Hegseth has denied the allegations.

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Elon Musk can no longer hide Donald Trump's mess

(Salon) The presidential election last month was a disappointment, to say the least. And ever since then, it's felt as if the air has just been slowly leaking out of the opposition. Once the country sees him as president again I suspect that the disconsolate lethargy so many have been feeling will lift and we'll see some energy return to the opposition. It had better. Hiding our heads in the sand isn't going to make him go away.

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Kinzinger has 'absolutely no worries' Trump will try to put him in jail

(The Hill) Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said he has “absolutely no worries” that President-elect Trump will try to put him in jail. Trump joined “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker on Sunday for his first sit-down interview since winning the election. He indicated that he would not explicitly order his appointees to go after his political enemies but referenced jailing members who sat on the Jan. 6 select committee, which Kinzinger was part of.

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Experts warn wild RFK Jr. theory is poised to cripple wi-fi

(Raw Story) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could look to disrupt a key telecommunications network due to unproven concerns about potential health risks, according to a new report. If the political scion is confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he could explore his long-held concerns about possible cancer risks from cell phones and 5G technology, reported NOTUS. “The next-generation telecommunications network should be discontinued until it has been ‘sufficiently demonstrated that there are no real and serious health risks,” Kennedy posted on X in 2020. “There is no evidence that these radiation wavelengths cause cancer," said Tim Rebbeck, a professor who studies cancer prevention at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Zelenskyy Open to Western Troops Providing Security for End to War in Ukraine

(AP) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he's open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country’s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia. The deployment would be a step toward Ukraine joining NATO, Zelenskyy said in a post on his Telegram channel.

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Miller outlines how Trump administration would prioritize mass deportations

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