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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has picked New York Republican Representative Elise Stefanik to serve as ambassador to the UN in his forthcoming administration after earlier announcing that Tom Homan will be his border czar, taking responsibility for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
The president-elect wrote on his Truth Social platform that Homan, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), would be in charge of “the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security”.
He added: “I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders.
“Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.
“Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”
Homan subsequently told Fox and Friends on Monday morning that he has already begun receiving death threats from people opposed to his plans.
Trump will meet with Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday to discuss a transition schedule as the Senate elects a new majority leader to replace the outgoing Mitch McConnell, with GOP senators John Cornyn, John Thune and Rick Scott in contention.
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Bernie Sanders doubles down that people are ‘angry’ with Dems after Pelosi said she didn’t ‘respect’ his remarks
Bernie Sanders has doubled down on his scathing remarks about the Democratic party having “abandoned” working-class voters, despite criticism from longtime friend and ally Nancy Pelosi.
The veteran Vermont senator reiterated that the US working class is “angry” but rejected the idea that the issue this election cycle had been with party “messaging.”
“Bottom line, if you’re an average working person out there, do you really think that the Democratic party is going to the mat… and fighting for you? I think the overwhelming answer is no. And that is what it’s got to change,” he said on Sunday.
The right-wing organization in Trump’s ear replacing the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025
Implementing loyalists to executive branch positions, forcing local and state law enforcement agencies to comply with mass deportation and taking a confrontational approach to relations with China are all policies promoted by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank with influence over Donald Trump.
Ariana Baio breaks it down:
The right-wing agenda replacing Project 2025
Implementing loyalists to executive branch positions, forcing local and state law enforcement agencies to comply with mass deportation and taking a confrontational approach to relations with China are all policies promoted by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank with influence over Donald Trump. Ariana Baio breaks it down
Democrats are trying to work out where it all went wrong. On the left of the party a consensus is forming
Several elected Democrats sounded off on their party’s failure to present a coherent economic message to voters on Sunday as the post-mortem begins for the left in the wake of Kamala Harris’s stunning defeat.
Though their warning is already meeting some resistance, Democrats including Chris Murphy, Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders offered stern critiques of their party’s accelerated losses with working-class voters of all races, especially men, as well as other constituencies once considered core parts of the Obama coalition, like Latino voters.
John Bowden takes a closer look:
Democrats are trying to work out what went wrong. On the left a consensus is forming
Democrats must abandon ‘neoliberalism’, Connecticut senator warns, as party leaders face strongest backlash in years
Watch: SNL mocks ‘hot, jacked’ Trump in first post-election episode
CNN host Dana Bash confronts Jim Jordan with claim MAGA only cries election fraud when Trump loses
MAGA Rep Jim Jordan stumbled over his words as he was confronted live on-air with a claim that Donald Trump and his supporters only cry election fraud when they lose.
The Ohio congressman appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday where he was asked multiple times by host Dana Bash whether he thought that 2024 had been a “free and fair election.”
Read more here:
Bash confronts Jim Jordan with claim MAGA only cries election fraud when Trump loses
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Nikki Haley responds to Trump’s announcement that she’s not welcome back in his second administration
Nikki Haley is playing it nice after being publicly snubbed by Donald Trump in a post which stated that she and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo will both be excluded from his second administration.
Haley was Trump’s last remaining rival in the Republican primary election earlier this year.
Check out her response here:
Haley responds to Trump’s announcement that she won’t be in his second administration
Trump publicly batted down Haley and Pompeo as he plans his future cabinet
‘There can only be one’: CNN contributor predicts future fallout between Trump and Musk
A fallout between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is all but inevitable, according to a political commentator, who warned that the attention-seeking personalities of two of the world’s most powerful men means they will struggle to “co-exist.”
Speaking on CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show on Saturday, Kara Swisher predicted that the president-elect, despite waxing lyrical about Musk throughout his 2024 campaign, will ultimately not be willing to share the spotlight with the entrepreneur.
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CNN contributor predicts future fallout of Trump and Musk: ‘There can only be one’
Kara Swisher predicted that the president-elect, despite waxing lyrical about Musk throughout his 2024 campaign, will ultimately not be willing to share the spotlight with the entrepreneur
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49ers star Nick Bosa fined $11,000 for sporting MAGA hat during post-game interview
San Francisco 49ers star defensive end Nick Bosa has been fined by the NFL for wearing a hat with a pro-Donald Trump message during a postgame television interview, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Bosa was fined $11,255 for violating the NFL uniform and equipment rules for wearing a hat that contained a personal message, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the fine wasn't announced by the NFL.
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49ers star Nick Bosa fined $11,000 for sporting MAGA hat during post-game interview
A person familiar with the matter says San Francisco 49ers star defensive end Nick Bosa has been fined by the NFL for wearing a hat with a pro-Donald Trump message during a post-game television interview
‘Gary Barlow’s massive son’ has saved us from Trump misery
Meanwhile, in the UK...
‘Gary Barlow’s massive son’ has saved us from Trump misery
If things feel bleak after the American election, thank goodness for a simple photograph from a pop star’s family album, which has lit up social media – and there’s plenty more where it came from
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