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President-elect Trump announced that he is nominating former Congressman Sean Duffy of Wisconsin to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
“Sean has been a tremendous and well-liked public servant, starting his career as a District Attorney for Ashland, Wisconsin, and later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District,” Trump said in his announcement on Monday. “Sean will use his experience and the relationships he has built over many years in Congress to maintain and rebuild our Nation’s Infrastructure, and fulfill our Mission of ushering in The Golden Age of Travel, focusing on Safety, Efficiency, and Innovation. Importantly, he will greatly elevate the Travel Experience for all Americans!”
While in Congress, Duffy helped advocate for fiscal responsibility, economic growth and rural development.
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Trump campaign official Chris LaCivita predicted election officials in Pennsylvania will face jail time for counting mail-in ballots with either incorrect or missing dates after the state Supreme Court previously ruled such ballots should not be counted.
“They will go to jail,” LaCivita, Trump’s co-campaign manager, posted to his X account on Sunday evening. “Count on it.”
LaCivita was reacting to a social media post touting a Washington Free Beacon article detailing that Democratic Sen. Bob Casey endorsed Democratic Bucks County commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia last year during her campaign for the position, before she and other Democratic commissioners in the state voted to count the disqualified ballots.
“I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” Ellis-Marseglia said Thursday as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that should be disqualified.
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS OPENLY ADMIT TO COUNTING ILLEGAL BALLOTS IN MCCORMICK-CASEY RACE
Pennsylvania is in the midst of a ballot recount after Casey refused to concede his race against Sen.-elect Dave McCormick earlier this month. McCormick’s unofficial margin of victory stands at roughly 17,000 votes, or within the 0.5% threshold required under Pennsylvania law to trigger an automatic recount.
“Pennsylvanians deserve to have their voices heard, and the worth of someone’s vote is not determined by how long it takes to be counted,” Casey wrote in an op-ed defending his decision to not concede the race. “When a Pennsylvanian takes the time to cast a legal vote, often waiting in long lines and taking time away from their work and family, they deserve to have their vote counted, whether it is the first ballot counted or the last.”
The state Supreme Court ruled ahead of the election that mail-in ballots that do not include formally required signatures or dates should not be counted for the official tally of votes in the state. Democratic-led election boards, however — including in Philadelphia, Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Centre County — bucked the state high court’s ruling and voted to include such ballots in the recount.
“People violate laws any time they want,” Ellis-Marseglia said last week, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “So, for me, if I violate this law it’s because I want a court to pay attention. There’s nothing more important than counting votes.”
REPUBLICANS FILE 12 PENNSYLVANIA LAWSUITS IN ‘AGGRESSIVE’ PUSH TO END RECOUNT
In addition to Casey endorsing the Democratic commissioner during her campaign last year, Ellis-Marseglia, as well as fellow Democratic Bucks County commissioner Bob Harvie, donated a combined $2,600 to the Casey campaign this year, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Republicans have launched a bevy of lawsuits over including the disqualified ballots in the recount. Republican Party officials are filing 12 lawsuits in Pennsylvania in order to protect the Senate seat.
‘ABSOLUTE LAWLESSNESS’: GOP BLASTS PA. DEMS’ RECOUNT EFFORT IN CASEY SENATE LOSS
Both national and state Republican parties have filed lawsuits in four counties across Pennsylvania, urging the courts to not count mail-in ballots with either incorrect or missing dates, in accordance with a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling this month.
RNC officials challenged the notion that the Senate recount, which continues through Nov. 26, will change the outcome of the election in any substantive way. They have decried the effort, which costs an estimated $1 million, as a waste of taxpayer money, noting that since 2000 there have been just three statewide election recounts in Pennsylvania, and each has resulted in an average change of 393 votes.
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS SLAMMED FOR COUNTING ILLEGAL BALLOTS IN SENATE RACE: UNBELIEVABLY ‘BRAZEN’
“Democrat officials are on video saying that they’re going to choose to break the law, and there will be legal consequences for that,” a senior party official told Fox News earlier Monday.
“The Casey campaign could end the recount at any time,” Pennsylvania Republican Party Chair Lawrence Tabas added of the lawsuits. “And there are political ramifications of eroding the voters’ confidence in elections that has been built. So we need to stop this attempt at electioneering and declare McCormick the winner.”
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Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), the chair of the House Ethics Committee, said that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) won’t influence whether his committee releases its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who vacated his House seat last week after being tapped to become President-elect Trump’s attorney general.
Johnson has urged the Ethics Committee against releasing the Gaetz report, saying it would be “a terrible breach of protocol and tradition and the spirit of the rule,” since Gaetz is no longer a House member.
Guest said Monday that he and Johnson spoke at the end of last week, according to Politico.
“I appreciate Mike reaching out,” Guest told the outlet. “I don’t see it having an impact on what we as a committee ultimately decide.”
While Trump has nominated a number of controversial figures to his Cabinet, none has garnered more blowback than Gaetz, a far-right firebrand and fierce Trump loyalist.
At the Department of Justice, he would take over an agency that previously investigated him over allegations of sex trafficking. Though that probe did not lead to charges, the House Ethics Committee opened its own investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. Gaetz has denied allegations of wrongdoing.
Two women testified before the House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them to have sex, according to the attorney representing them.
Democrats and some Republicans have said the findings in the report must be released to senators weighing his nomination.
The Ethics Committee pushed back a meeting last week about the report, and is now set to meet Wednesday about it, a source told The Hill. Guest told Politico the report is not available to all members of the committee.
Johnson has quickly found his way into Trump’s inner orbit following this month’s election victory, and is trying to exert his influence to block the Gaetz report.
“I’m going to strongly request the Ethics Committee not issue the report, because that is not how we do things in the House and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set,” he told reporters on Friday.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Johnson said he had not spoken with Trump about the report.
“The president and I have literally not discussed one word about the ethics report, not once, and I’ve been with him quite a bit this week — between Washington and Mar-a-Lago and last night at Madison Square Garden,” Johnson said.
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The soon-to-be-formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Must and entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, shared some examples of obscene government waste on Monday so Americans can have some clear examples of what needs to be cut.
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– House Ethics Committee to meet Wednesday after postponing Gaetz investigation meeting
– Trump confirms support for major step in mass deportation push to ‘reverse the Biden invasion’
– Republicans file 12 Pennsylvania lawsuits in ‘aggressive’ push to end recount
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus will oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s planned mass deportation campaign, Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán, D-Calif., declared during remarks on Friday.
The congresswoman – who chairs the group composed entirely of Democrats – claimed that mass deportations would “have a negative impact on the U.S. economy.”
During a Saturday appearance on “Fox News Live,” Tom Homan, who Trump tapped to serve as “border czar,” responded to the lawmaker’s remarks…Read more
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Allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct are complicating the paths of two of President-elect Trump’s most important nominees.
In the process, they threaten to put a new spotlight on Trump’s record with women.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla) left Congress upon being nominated by Trump to serve as attorney general last week. His resignation ended an investigation into him by the House Ethics Committee, which was looking into sexual allegations, among others. That panel has no jurisdiction once a member leaves office.
A previous criminal probe resulted in no charges against Gaetz.
However, the debate over whether the Ethics Committee’s report will be released has roiled the Capitol. Washington being Washington, many insiders expect the report to leak even if no official release is forthcoming.
Separately, Trump’s nominee to be secretary of Defense, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, is under new scrutiny after it emerged that he paid a woman who had accused him of sexual assault as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
Both Gaetz and Hegseth vigorously deny any wrongdoing.
An attorney for Hegseth told The Washington Post, which broke the story of his nondisclosure agreement, the complainant was “the aggressor in initiating sexual activity” during their 2017 encounter.
To be sure, it is possible Gaetz and Hegseth get confirmed anyway — though several GOP senators have expressed misgivings about the former Florida congressman in particular.
There is no sign, at least so far, that Trump is having second thoughts.
The presidents-elect’s communications director, Steven Cheung, told The New York Times on Sunday that Hegseth had “vigorously denied any and all accusations” and that the Trump transition team “look forward to his confirmation.”
An unnamed source told CNN, in relation to Gaetz, that Trump was “not going to back off. He’s all in.”
But that kind of defiance could pose some dangers to the president-elect, given his history.
Trump was held liable for the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll in a civil trial last year. Carroll has alleged Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. Trump was not held liable for rape at the trial.
Then there is Trump’s broader history, which includes hush money payments made to porn actor Stormy Daniels, who alleged she had a sexual encounter with Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006.
Daniels acknowledges the encounter was consensual. But more than 20 women have accused Trump of inappropriate sexual conduct, albeit of varying degrees of severity.
Trump denies wrongdoing in all those cases and generally tends to portray the women involved as motivated by a desire for fame or money.
Democrats look at his picks of figures like Gaetz and Hegseth with disdain.
“Isn’t the expression that the fish rots from the head?” asked Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky. “It’s not a surprise that an administration helmed by an adjudicated sexual predator would have no problem with high-level Cabinet officials who also have issues around sexual misconduct.”
Roginsky, a prominent advocate for women who have been sexually harassed in the workplace, added, “For those of us who have been working for years around these issues, it is dispiriting to say the least. We just have to work all the harder.”
Conservative commentators see it very differently, of course.
Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham last week — before the issue of Hegseth’s nondisclosure agreement became public — that Hegseth would be “easily confirmed.”
“I dare any Republican senator to vote against him,” Chaffetz added. “That is not in their best interest.”
Still, all of this comes on top of long-standing challenges for Trump and his party when it comes to female voters.
While Trump did better with women in this month’s election than many polls predicted — and shaved some points off the Democratic advantage with female voters compared to 2020 — women still lean away from him and his party.
Among all female voters, Vice President Harris had an 8-point advantage, according to exit polls. Harris won 53 percent of women and Trump 45 percent.
The differential was sharper among young women and unmarried women.
Trump lost female voters younger than 30 by 24 points and lost unmarried women by 21 points. While the president-elect made progress with male voters of color, this was far less true for their female counterparts. Ninety-one percent of Black women voted for Harris, as did 60 percent of Latinas — figures that are broadly in line with recent history.
When it comes to confirmation proceedings in the Senate, two female GOP figures, Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) are among the most likely to vote against Trump’s more controversial nominees.
Soon after Gaetz was announced as Trump’s pick to head the Department of Justice, Murkowski told reporters he was not “a serious nomination for attorney general,” while Collins declared herself “shocked” by the decision to push him forward.
There was more trouble for Trump’s nominee for attorney general on Monday, when a Florida attorney told ABC News two of his clients had testified to the House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had paid them for sex.
Both those clients were adults at the time, but one of them, according to the attorney, also testified she had seen Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old.
Regarding those allegations, a Trump transition spokesperson told ABC, “Matt Gaetz will be the next attorney general. He’s the right man for the job and will end the weaponization of our justice system.”
That’s the case for now. But Trump could incur some damage — and might even consider cutting his losses — if more allegations emerge.
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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is introducing a resolution to ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol.
Mace is expected to file the resolution on Monday.
She told Fox News Digital of the measure, “The sanctity of protecting women and standing up against the Left’s systematic erasure of biological women starts here in the nation’s Capitol.”
JOHNSON BLASTS DEM ACCUSATIONS HE VOWED TO END OBAMACARE AS ‘DISHONEST’
The South Carolina Republican plans to introduce a measure “prohibiting Members, officers, and employees of the House from using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex, and for other purposes,” according to text previewed by Fox News Digital.
House Republicans have previously changed rules on their side of Congress, such as when ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., scuttled metal detectors outside the House chamber after winning the gavel from previous Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
MIKE JOHNSON WINS REPUBLICAN SUPPORT TO BE HOUSE SPEAKER AGAIN AFTER TRUMP ENDORSEMENT
Mace’s legislation would charge the House sergeant at arms with enforcing the rule.
It’s a preview of what kind of changes Republicans could look to pass when they control both houses of Congress next year.
MATT GAETZ FACES GOP SENATE OPPOSITION AFTER TRUMP SELECTION FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
Republicans hammered Democrats on transgender issues in the most recent election, particularly the topic of trans youth athletes in school sports.
The House GOP moved to restrict federal dollars for transgender health care and to block trans student athletes from participating in school sports teams of their chosen gender.
Mace previously introduced a bill that would have forced illegal immigrants with a history of sex crimes or violence against women to be deported. That bill passed with the support of 51 Democrats and all House Republicans.
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Criticisms have mounted surrounding President-elect Trump naming former Rep. Matt Gaetz as his pick for U.S. attorney general, following nearly four years of actions taken by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice that came under fierce fire from conservatives.
Trump named Gaetz as his pick for attorney general last Wednesday, coming as a surprise to both conservatives and liberals alike. Democrats have notably slammed the choice, citing the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into Gaetz’s alleged sexual misconduct with a minor. Gaetz has long denied any wrongdoing, and the Trump transition team said they are confident the Senate will confirm Gaetz.
“I know Matt personally. He is a great person. He’s a man of integrity. He also is a brilliant litigator. He served on the House Judiciary Committee for eight years. Anyone who has watched him in those hearings knows that he’s incredibly impressive,” Karoline Leavitt, the transition team’s spokesperson and Trump’s recently announced pick for press secretary, said on Fox News last week.
“Like President Trump, Matt Gaetz has been a victim of the weaponized Department of Justice, and one of the promises President Trump made to the American people was to root out the corruption at the DOJ. We have seen this agency turn against the American people because of their political beliefs. Matt Gaetz and President Trump are going to put an end to that, and that’s what the American people want. That’s why they elected him,” Leavitt added.
SPEAKER JOHNSON OPPOSES RELEASING MATT GAETZ’S HOUSE ETHICS REPORT: ‘OPEN A PANDORA’S BOX’
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, has repeatedly come under fire for a series of actions viewed as targeting conservatives.
The DOJ was heavily criticized by parents nationwide in 2021, when Garland issued a memo directing the FBI to use counterterrorism tools related to parents speaking out at school board meetings against transgender-related issues and critical race theory curricula. The memorandum followed the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sending a letter to President Biden, asking that the federal government investigate parents protesting at school board meetings, claiming school officials were facing threats at meetings.
The NSBA requested that parents’ actions should be examined under the Patriot Act as “domestic terrorists,” sparking Garland’s eventual memo, which did not use the phrase “domestic terrorist.”
“After surveying local law enforcement, U.S. Attorney’s offices around the country reported back to Main Justice that there was no legitimate law-enforcement basis for the Attorney General’s directive to use federal law-enforcement and counterterrorism resources to investigate school board-related threats,” the House Judiciary Committee stated in an interim report on the memo last year.
Garland testified before the Senate last year that the memo “was aimed at violence and threats of violence against a whole host of school personnel,” not parents “making complaints to their school board,” but the memo set off a firestorm of criticism from parents, nonetheless.
“The premier law enforcement agency of the United States of America, the FBI, was used as a weapon by the DOJ against parents who dared to voice their concerns at the most local level – their school board,” Moms For Liberty founder Tiffany Justice told Fox News Digital last year.
Other parents sounded off on social media, facetiously asking if they looked like a “domestic terrorist,” and others stating “arrest me” online in response to protesting liberal school policies.
GAETZ-GATE: NAVIGATING THE PRESIDENT-ELECT’S MOST BAFFLING CABINET PICK
The Biden DOJ again came under fire for claims it was fraudulently targeting religious Catholics when the FBI arrested a Pennsylvania dad in 2022 who frequently prayed outside of abortion clinics.
Mark Houck, a Catholic dad of seven who would often pray outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic, was arrested at his rural Pennsylvania home in Kintnersville by the FBI. The arrest stemmed from an altercation he had with a Planned Parenthood escort in Philadelphia in October 2021. Houck was accused of pushing the abortion clinic escort, who allegedly verbally harassed Houck’s 12-year-old son outside the clinic.
The Biden administration alleged Houck violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force with the intent to injure, intimidate and interfere with anyone because that person provides reproductive health care.
Houck was acquitted by a jury last year, after arguing that he was protecting his son. He and his wife Ryan-Marie argued the FBI used excessive force during the arrest, filing a lawsuit against the DOJ earlier this year alleging the arrest followed a “faulty and malicious investigation.”
In Georgia, the DOJ came under fire for suing the state after it passed the Election Integrity Act of 2021, which overhauled its election laws, including limiting ballot drop box locations and requiring absentee voters to provide a form of identification – such as a driver’s license or the last four digits of their Social Security number – when requesting an absentee ballot.
Biden, along with Democrats nationwide and Hollywood actors who frequently film in the Peach State, sounded off on the election laws, including the 46th president calling them “Jim Crow 2.0.”
“This is Jim Crow in the 21st century. It must end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act,” Biden said in March 2021.
“This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience. Among the outrageous parts of this new state law, it ends voting hours early so working people can’t cast their vote after their shift is over. It adds rigid restrictions on casting absentee ballots that will effectively deny the right to vote to countless voters,” Biden added.
The DOJ filed a lawsuit against the state, claiming that portions of the law had a “purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race,” the DOJ said in a press release at the time.
“The right of all eligible citizens to vote is the central pillar of our democracy, the right from which all other rights ultimately flow,” said Garland in a statement at the time. “This lawsuit is the first step of many we are taking to ensure that all eligible voters can cast a vote; that all lawful votes are counted; and that every voter has access to accurate information.”
Conservatives slammed the Biden administration and Democrats for “fearmongering” following the 2022 election cycle, which reported record-smashing early-voting numbers after Democrats claimed the laws would prevent some voters from casting ballots.
Simultaneous to running for re-election, Trump had juggled a handful of lawsuits leading up to Nov. 5, including charges brought against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Garland appointed Smith as special counsel, with the Trump legal team arguing the AG “violated the Appointments Clause by naming private-citizen Smith to target President Trump.”
Smith indicted Trump in Washington, D.C., over alleged efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, as well as federal charges against the former president in Florida for his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House. The judge presiding over the Florida case tossed it over the summer, which Smith quickly appealed.
Following Trump’s massive electoral win this month, however, Smith began winding the cases down as DOJ policy forbids criminal charges against a sitting president.
JUDGE DISMISSES TRUMP’S FLORIDA CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASE
Following the controversies within the DOJ under the Biden administration, Democrats are slamming Trump for naming Gaetz as his pick for attorney general. Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives following Trump’s announcement, but he still needs to be confirmed by the Senate in order to officially become attorney general in the second Trump administration.
“Three recent Trump nominees – Gaetz, Hegseth, and Gabbard – are far less qualified than Senate confirmation rejects like Bork, Tower, and Mier [sic],” Harvard Professor Lawrence Summers, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, posted on X, referencing Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Harriet Miers and Defense secretary nominee John Tower. “I hope that the Senate will do its duty.”
“This is going to be a red alert moment for American democracy. Matt Gaetz is being nominated for one reason and one reason only: Because he will implement Donald Trump’s transition of the Department of Justice from an agency that stands up for all of us to an agency that is simply an arm of the White House designed to persecute and prosecute Trump’s political enemies,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said last week.
TRUMP LAWYERS MOVE TO DISMISS JACK SMITH 2020 ELECTION CHARGES, CLAIM HE WAS UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED
“It’s just kind of like a God-tier kind of trolling just to trigger a meltdown,” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said. “But, really, the Dems’ opinions on Gaetz, that’s not really what’s interesting. The good ones are going to come by my colleagues on the other side, the GOP, on how they can justify voting for that j— off.”
While some Republicans have also sounded off on the choice and predicted that Gaetz won’t make it through the confirmation process, conservatives such as Fox News’ Mark Levin and Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson shut down such criticisms.
“The Democrat Party nominated and supported Tim Walz for vice president. I don’t want to hear from that party or its media that any of the Trump nominees are unqualified for their posts. They have demonstrated that they have no standards at all when it comes to selecting even a vice-presidential candidate. Every Trump nominee has a solid record. Perspective is very important,” Levin posted to X last week.
Johnson held up a photo of assistant HHS Secretary Rachel Levine and former senior Department of Energy official Sam Brinton when asked about the selection of Gaetz last week, asking, “Did you ask Democratic senators about this?” Levine is the first openly transgender individual to be confirmed by the Senate, while Brinton identifies as nonbinary and was arrested for baggage theft at airports before he departed the DOE.
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller, Gabriel Hays and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
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