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President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his commitment to ending constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, and initiating the mass deportation of American citizens — including minor children — with at least one undocumented parent, a pledge he emphasized throughout the 2024 campaign.

"I'm talking about parents who might be here illegally, but the kids are here legally," NBC News' Kristen Welker told Trump in a "Meet the Press" interview that aired Sunday. NBC News described Trump's plan as a "mass deportation effort."

State Senator-elect Steve Chan was able to flip a blue seat in New York held by Sen. Iwen Chu in November — but now reports are examining his ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Chan, who was born in Hong Kong, won New York's 17th Senate District that's long been held by Democrats. However, the New York Times reports a connection to John Chan, who "was a Chinatown gangster before remaking himself into a powerful force in New York politics."

Democrats should run hard on a key issue where Republicans face a core weakness, former conservative turned anti-GOP columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote for The Washington Post on Monday — education.

Fundamentally, she argued, one issue that crosses party lines is that parents want to be assured their kids are getting the best schooling they can — and Republicans' obsession with siphoning money from public education, and eliminating the department that oversees it, can be turned against them.

Democrats are complaining that President Joe Biden has essentially disappeared since Donald Trump won re-election last month, which sources inside the party told Politico has left many inside the party feeling has created a leadership vacuum.

The president has not yet scheduled a post-election press conference and has spoke only seven words to reporters during nearly two weeks since vice president Kamala Harris' loss, and his schedule has been notably light in the final weeks in the White House, reported the outlet.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI, former House GOP intelligence staffer and Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel, is notorious for his embrace of far-right conspiracy theories and his paranoia about the "Deep State" being out to get conservatives, alongside his vows to "come after" journalists and government officials who stand in Trump's way. But it turns out some events in his past may have shaped that anger and resentment, CNN reported on Monday.

In particular, wrote Evan Perez, Zachary Cohen, and Holmes Lybrand, there was an incident in a Texas courtroom in 2016 where Patel got attacked by a federal judge and accused of the very antics he now sees in everyone else.

The U.S. Supreme Court again denied a request to lift a gag order placed on President-elect Donald Trump after he was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York.

Justice Samuel Alito rejected the request on Monday on behalf of the court.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) scoffed at Donald Trump's threats to have him prosecuted for investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol assault when he served on a House special committee.

Speaking with host Mika Brzezinski, Schiff was asked about comments made by the president-elect in an NBC interview with Kristen Welker that was aired on Sunday.

For years, the Republican Party — and ultra-wealthy businessmen in general — have warned about "unelected bureaucrats" and the danger they pose to accountable government. But when they are handed unified control of Washington, they immediately bring in their own to control everything, wrote Ryan Teague Beckwith for MSNBC.

The principal way they are already doing this, he wrote, is the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, in which two pro-Trump billionaires, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, are heading up an unofficial task force, outside the government itself, to essentially make recommendations from on high about which federal programs and services should be cut.

Donald Trump has been reportedly raging against the "traitors" he appointed in his first administration, and his advisers are working to weed out anyone who's deemed insufficiently loyal for his second presidency.

The president-elect has expressed regret about appointing John Kelly as chief of staff and William Barr as attorney general, among other former officials who later publicly criticized him, and political analyst Brian Beutler told The New Republic's Greg Sargent that Trump is angry at those former loyalists who described the threat he poses to democracy.

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Key Texas lawmakers are reviving legislation that would require election officials to respond within set time frames to requests to explain “election irregularities” from certain party officials and election workers.

Donald Trump's surprising strength among Hispanic voters in the 2024 presidential election can be traced to son-in-law Jared Kushner's relationship with two media executives from Mexico who used their pull to get him a coveted interview on Univision that left insiders at the network shocked, according to a report.

The Wall Street Journal's Santiago Pérez and José de Córdoba reported tycoons Alfonso de Angoitia and Bernardo Gómez, known for their "longstanding influence of Grupo Televisa, a company that gained fame for taking soap operas, called telenovelas," have ties to Kushner dating back to the first Trump administration and helped set in motion the interview with Univision's Enrique Acevedo that boosted Trump's election prospects with Hispanic viewers.

President-elect Donald Trump tried to ram through a bunch of "flagrantly unqualified" loyalists without serious scrutiny — and it ended up blowing up in his face, wrote Doyle McManus for the Los Angeles Times on Monday.

Trump's controversial pick to run the Department of Justice, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), flamed out amid questions about an ethics investigation into allegations he was involved in child sex trafficking and multiple other nominees are getting intense scrutiny before the confirmation process has started.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could look to disrupt a key telecommunications network due to unproven concerns about potential health risks, according to a new report.

If the political scion is confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he could explore his long-held concerns about possible cancer risks from cell phones and 5G technology, reported NOTUS.