Republicans Choose New Senate Leader, Trump Continues Filling Cabinet, HHS Spends Millions on DEI | Nov. 13

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: For the first time in 18 years, Republicans in the Senate have a new leader. President-elect Donald Trump appoints Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and others to cabinet. The Department of Health and Human Services spends tens of millions of dollars annually on DEI expenses. The president of the host country of the 2024 U.N. climate change conference defends fossil fuels. A federal judge temporarily halts a Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

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0:00.0	Senate Republicans picked a new leader.
0:06.0	I'm Elizabeth Mitchell, and this is the Daily Signal's top news in 10 for Wednesday, November 13th.
0:16.0	For the first time in 18 years, Republicans in the Senate have a new leader.
0:25.8	Senator John Thune of South Dakota will replace outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as the conference's front man.
0:35.1	Republicans held a secret ballot election this morning to determine McConnell's
0:39.3	successor. The Daily Signals, Bradley Devlin, covered this in the Capitol today. The other
0:44.2	senators on the ballot were Senator John Cornyn and Senator Rick Scott. What was the voting process
0:49.2	like and why do you think Thune ultimately won?
0:51.7	Yeah, the voting process is very, very secretive. That's why they call it a secret ballot.
0:57.0	They met in the old chamber and decided to have a little tiny candidate forum. They had a
1:03.5	larger, longer candidate forum on Tuesday night. They heard speeches from all three of the candidates,
1:08.8	Thune, Cornyn and Scott, and the first
1:11.2	ballot was not conclusive.
1:12.6	Thune got reportedly, because we don't know.
1:15.4	When these, anyone who says they have the list of who voted for who, they're selling
1:20.6	you a false bill of goods because not only is this vote taken in secret, but when the
1:25.1	ballots are turned in, they don't have any names on them.
1:28.2	So, after the first ballot, Thune could not get across the finish line. He only had 23 votes.
1:33.5	He needed 27. Corning got 15 and Scott reportedly got 13. That second ballot, Scott dropped off,
1:40.4	and it was a head-to-head matchup versus John Thune and John Cornyn, both of whom have served
1:45.8	as the conference's whips in the past, and Thune ended up carrying the day. Now Thune does come
1:53.1	from leadership already. He's kind of been groomed by McConnell for this role over a number of
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