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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

President-elect Donald Trump today nominated Brooke Rawlins.

As Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, she served as the Director of Domestic Policy Council in his first administration.

Trump also tapped billionaire investor Scott Bassett as his Treasury Secretary.

That's a position with widespread responsibilities

in economic, regulatory, and international affairs. And Pierre Scott Horsley has more.

He'll probably get a friendly reception from the new GOP Congress, if he's confirmed. One of his

first jobs will be getting an extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts, parts of which are set

to expire next year. He'll likely be pushing on an open door when it comes to cutting taxes,

although that would probably add to the federal debt, which we learned just yesterday,

has now surpassed $36 trillion.

And Pierre Scott Horsley reporting.

Turnout in this year's presidential election was very high historically,

and Republicans, including Donald Trump, fared well, winning the House, Senate, and presidency.

As NPR's Miles Parks reports, that contradicts conventional political wisdom, and it could entice

Republicans to embrace policies that make

voting easier. For years, it's been largely assumed that high turnout elections would favor Democrats.

That's because low propensity voters tend to be poorer and less educated, and those groups have tended to vote Democratic.

2024 turned that upside down.

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