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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Monday, November 25, 2024. This is the excerpt.

Today we take a look at Trump's cabinet as we move deeper into the transition period,

plus how a teenager in Tennessee could change transgender rights and what does resistance

look like this time around for Democrats.

The incoming Trump administration enters this Thanksgiving week with major positions decided.

Among them, President-elect Donald Trump tapped Russell Vote, a co-author of Project 2025,

to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Vote served in the same role during Trump's first term

and later founded the Center for Renewing America, an advocacy group backing Trump's agenda after his defeat in 2020.

The Office of Management and Budget produces the president's annual budgets, implements the president's priorities in the executive branch, and coordinates with federal agencies and departments.

Vote wrote the chapter on executive power in Project 2025,

the controversial policy blueprint created by the Conservative Heritage Foundation

that Trump tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

In it, vote went after federal regulatory agencies that are not under control of the White House

and said that there's a need for aggressive use of the powers of the executive branch.

Votes appointment requires Senate confirmation.

Trump also named Sebastian Gorka, a conservative commentator to a national security role in the

incoming White House.

Gorka, who was a top defender of Trump's ban on refugees from predominantly

Muslim countries, will serve as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for

counterterrorism. During Trump's first term, Gorka served in a similar position. Trump rounded out

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