Trump taps Musk, Ramaswamy to lead new 'Department of Government Efficiency'
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump continues sketching out what his next presidency will look like.
USA TODAY National Correspondent Will Carless discusses Donald Trump's promises about pardoning January 6 insurrectionists, and what such pardons would potentially mean for the far right movement.
A New York court suspends all current deadlines in Donald Trump's New York hush money case.
USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe looks at the future of several issues circling the high court.
The Pentagon classified document leaker has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free right now. |
| 0:05.6 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. |
| 0:12.4 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. |
| 0:14.7 | And today is Wednesday, November 13, 2024. |
| 0:18.0 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:22.2 | Today, a look at some of Trump's latest cabinet picks. Plus what Trump's promises about |
| 0:27.1 | pardoning January 6th insurrectionists might mean for the future of the far-right movement. |
| 0:32.5 | And we take a look at what's next for several major issues circling the Supreme Court. |
| 0:38.0 | President-elect Donald Trump continues to build his next administration, |
| 0:41.9 | tapping trusted allies to serve as advisors and cabinet members. |
| 0:46.0 | And one of his latest moves, Trump announced he is nominating former Arkansas |
| 0:49.2 | governor Mike Huckabee as his U.S. ambassador to Israel. |
| 0:53.1 | Huckabee is a Baptist minister and former Fox News host who has run for the Republican |
| 0:57.4 | presidential nomination twice unsuccessfully. |
| 1:01.0 | Senator Marco Rubio is expected to be named the next Secretary of State, according to the |
| 1:05.1 | New York Times and CNN. |
| 1:06.9 | Rubio is the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was a finalist to be Trump's running mate. |
| 1:12.5 | He would be the first Latino to serve in the position. |
| 1:15.7 | Meanwhile, Trump said yesterday he's tapped tech billionaire Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest person and former Republican presidential contender Vivekramaswamy, to lead a new of Government Efficiency that will work to slash federal |
| 1:28.9 | government spending, waste and regulations. In other roles, Trump has appointed Tom Homan to oversee |
| 1:35.1 | deportation policy and aviation security. Homan was a border patrol agent for 34 years and |
| 1:41.6 | served in Trump's first administration as acting ICE director. |
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