President-elect Donald Trump announced more appointments on Tuesday, giving us a fuller picture of what his incoming administration is going to look like (tl;dr: It's bad). One cabinet spot that’s still open, though: Secretary of Education. Whoever gets the job, they’ll likely be tasked with implementing Trump's campaign promise to close the Department of Education, a long-time GOP goal that dates back to the Reagan Era. Erica Meltzer, national editor at Chalkbeat, explains why keeping that promise will be pretty difficult. And in headlines: Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego is headed to the Senate, the New York judge overseeing Trump’s hush money trial delayed a decision on dismissing the president-elect’s conviction, and the chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil says the incoming Trump administration should avoid drastic changes to American climate policy.
It's Wednesday, November 13th.
I'm Jane Coston and this is what a day.
The show that is lowering our flag to half mast in observance of West Virginia Senator elect Jim Justice's canine named baby dog being barred from the Senate floor.
Dogs may not belong on the Senate floor, but they do belong in our hearts.
On today's show, the votes for the 119th Congress are still being tallied.
And even oil executives are asking Trump not to overhaul the country's climate change regulations.
Let's get into it.
President elect Donald Trump made up a department for his good friends Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge.
Get it?
Like dogecoin.
I'm sure Elon finds it very funny.
Anyway, Trump says it'll be the, quote, Manhattan Project of our time.
I desperately, desperately hope it is not the Manhattan Project of our time for many, many reasons.
And Trump continues to fill out his Cabinet.
He's expected to choose Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, but that hasn't been made official yet.
If Trump does choose Rubio, he would be the first Latino to hold the position.
It would also make him the first Secretary of State to have ever been called Little Marco by the President.
Trump plans to nominate South Dakota governor and Trump loyalist Kristi Noem for Secretary of Homeland Security.
She's known for killing her puppy and writing about it in her memoir.
Other Cabinet picks as of Tuesday include former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for US Ambassador to Israel, former Congressman John Ratcliffe for Director of the CIA, and Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, to do the very unimportant job of Secretary of Defense.