diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-13-day-1394.markdown b/_posts/2024-11-13-day-1394.markdown index 46f3c8ff9b..6bc09bd1ef 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-13-day-1394.markdown +++ b/_posts/2024-11-13-day-1394.markdown @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ todayInOneSentence: Trump named Matt Gaetz his pick as attorney general, Fox New 2/ **Trump named Fox News Host Pete Hegseth his choice for secretary of defense and John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA**. Trump also tapped Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence. Gabbard has been accused of spreading "actual Russian propaganda," being a "Russian asset," and condemned as a "traitor" by both [Republicans](https://www.salon.com/2022/03/16/conservatives-pile-on-as-tulsi-gabbard-named-as-most-influential-spreader-of-disinformation/) and [Democrats](https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-bio-labs-ukraine-russia-conspiracy-1687594). Hegseth, a co-host of “Fox & Friends," is a veteran of the Army National Guard, where he did tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay as an infantry officer. He’s called the U.S. the military ineffective, “woke,” mused about firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and said allowing women to serve in combat has made the military less lethal. If confirmed by the Senate, Hegseth would take over the federal government’s biggest department, an $850 billion budget and a workforce of nearly three million civilian workers and military service members despite having never held a senior government post. ([Axios](https://www.axios.com/2024/11/13/trump-pete-hegseth-secretary-of-defense) / [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33970/trump-pete-hegseth-fox-news-defense-department-military) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/12/pete-hegseth-trump-pentagon-defense-00189182) / [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-trump.html) / [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseth-john-ratcliffe-trump-cabinet-f5711d3e) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/12/pete-hegseth-trump-defense-secretary/) / [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2024/11/13/trump-tulsi-gabbard-national-intelligence) / [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/trump-hegseth-defense-secretary-pentagon-2d8030921ecef933778cf92afd40ec72) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/13/tulsi-gabbard-director-national-intelligence-trump-00189370) / [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/trump-tulsi-gabbard-director-national-intelligence.html) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/13/politics/trump-picks-tulsi-gabbard-director-of-national-intelligence/index.html)) -3/ **Trump named billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as co-heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency** that will "dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies - Essential to the 'Save America' Movement." DOGE – a reference to a meme cryptocurrency – will operate outside of the federal government, but will work with the White House Office of Management and Budget to implement its recommendations. Trump called it “the Manhattan Project” of this era that would deliver “drastic change.” ([NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-says-elon-musk-will-lead-department-government-efficiency-vivek-rcna179899) / [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33972/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge-government-efficiency-deep-state) / [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump.html) / [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-government-efficiency-trump-cabinet-d42c8a2e) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/12/congress/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump-00189209) / [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-new-department-of-government-efficiency/)) +3/ **Trump named billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as co-heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency** that will "dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies - essential to the 'Save America' Movement." DOGE – a reference to a meme cryptocurrency – will operate outside of the federal government, but will work with the White House Office of Management and Budget to implement its recommendations. Trump called it “the Manhattan Project” of this era that would deliver “drastic change.” ([NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-says-elon-musk-will-lead-department-government-efficiency-vivek-rcna179899) / [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33972/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge-government-efficiency-deep-state) / [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump.html) / [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-government-efficiency-trump-cabinet-d42c8a2e) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/12/congress/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump-00189209) / [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-new-department-of-government-efficiency/)) * **Who’s in Trump’s new administration so far**: @@ -86,4 +86,4 @@ todayInOneSentence: Trump named Matt Gaetz his pick as attorney general, Fox New **Jan. 6**: Congress counts Electoral College ballots. \ **Jan. 20**: Trump’s Presidential Inauguration. -* **The midterm elections are in 720 days**. \ No newline at end of file +* **The midterm elections are in 720 days**.