Trump's Cabinet, A Hodge-Podge Of Loyalists

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It’s been just three weeks since the election, and President-elect Donald Trump has already named most of his cabinet picks, including all of the big ones to head executive departments. They are, in a word, eclectic. A mix of traditional Republican establishment types, MAGA diehard and… former Democrats? It’s an open question whether Trump’s picks will find common cause beyond just wanting a seat at Trump’s table. Burgess Everett, Congressional bureau chief for Semafor, talks about how Trump Administration 2.0 could work.

And in headlines: Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped both of his criminal cases against Trump, California says it found bird flu in raw milk that’s available in stores, and Drake uses the courts to get petty.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, November 26th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that stands with Peach and Blossom, the two turkeys pardoned on Monday by President Joe Biden. Pardoned for what? We have no idea. What crimes could these two turkeys have possibly committed? Do they have legal representation?
0:30.3	On today's show, special counsel Jack Smith calls off charges against Trump, and California says it found bird flu in raw milk that's available in stores. Let's get into it.
0:35.5	It's been just about three weeks since the election, and President-elect Donald Trump
0:39.5	has already named most of his cabinet picks, including all of the big ones to head executive
0:43.8	departments.
0:44.9	And they are, in a word, um, eclectic?
0:49.6	You've got some traditional Republican establishment types, people like Florida Senator Marco Rubio and North
0:55.1	Dakota Governor Doug Bergam. They've been tapped for Secretary of State and Secretary of the
0:59.5	Interior, respectively. Then there are the MAGA diehards, like South Dakota Governor Christy Knoam,
1:04.7	who Trump wants to head the Department of Homeland Security, and Fox News host Pete Hegeseth,
1:09.7	Trump's pick for Defense secretary. There are also three
1:12.7	former Democrats, including one billionaire who used to donate to Democratic causes. That's Scott Bessent,
1:18.1	Trump's picked ahead the Treasury Department. The other two Dems are RFK Jr. who's been picked to
1:22.7	run health and human services, and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who Trump wants for Director of National
1:27.9	Intelligence. Sure, diversity of perspective and opinion is definitely a good thing. Normally,
1:34.1	but this is a Trump cabinet, so how are all these people supposed to work together? Will they
1:38.8	find common cause beyond just wanting a seat at Trump's table? Or is the Trump administration
1:43.2	2.0 going to be like the real world Capitol Hill,
1:46.0	with drama and backstabbing and at least one person crying in a confessional?
1:50.1	And yes, there is also a real world alumnus among the ranks of Trump's picks.
1:54.6	That's former congressman and Fox News personality Sean Duffy,
1:58.0	who's Trump's pick for Transportation Secretary.
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