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An Iowa senator has been tapped to take the helm of a new Senate caucus that will work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's largely symbolic Department of Government Efficiency, which is tasked with identifying areas to slash spending.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) will head the Senate DOGE Caucus after meeting with Ramaswamy at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, Politico reported.

Walmart — the world's largest retailer — issued a warning to customers that they may pay more for the same products if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his promise to impose new tariffs on imports.

Walmart's finance chief, John David Rainey, acknowledged that new tariffs would likely be passed on to the people buying goods imported from overseas, Fortune reported Friday. Currently, anywhere from 70% to 80% of goods sold at Walmart are made in China, and could be affected by potential new tariffs. In September, PBS reported that Trump proposed tariffs as high as 60% on imports from China, and 20% tariffs on products made elsewhere.

Congressional Republicans are aiming at a new target in their promise to gut federal agencies once Donald Trump reemerges in the White House with a GOP trifecta.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) said he plans to introduce a measure that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, which he attacked for continuously violating “citizen rights and Second Amendment rights.”

President-elect Donald Trump has offered hedge fund executive Scott Bessent to head the Treasury Department, CNN reported.

The reporting on Trump’s transition team came Friday afternoon days after the incoming president named Wall Street executive Howard Lutnick as Commerce secretary.

Donald Trump plans to purge the team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to try to prosecute Trump and assemble teams to investigate the 2020 election, The Washington Post reported Friday.

According to the report, Trump wants to immediately seek revenge against the federal prosecutors who helped outgoing special counsel Jack Smith file two criminal cases against him, firing every attorney working under him "including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution, according to two individuals close to Trump’s transition."

A Democratic lawmaker ridiculed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Georgia Republican scored a new job that will coordinate with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Greene will join a new congressional subcommittee that will work with the Department of Government Efficiency, a largely symbolic agency that Trump announced will identify severe cuts and be headed by Musk and Ramaswamy.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) may have been forced to withdraw from Donald Trump's nomination for attorney general, at a cost to the GOP and Trump's ability to control the caucus. But the battle to prevent unqualified nominees from controlling critical agencies is just beginning, The Washington Post editorial board wrote Friday.

This comes as multiple other picks for the Trump administration deal with sexual misconduct scandals of their own, just after Gaetz was derailed by an ethics investigation into accusations he engaged in child sex trafficking.

A former Florida Republican said he's breathing a "sigh of relief" that Pam Bondi is now Donald Trump's new attorney general choice, noting that she's not only qualified, she hasn't been embroiled in any sex scandals.

Legal analysts debated ethics and experiences during Friday's MSNBC discussion about Bondi. Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) confessed that he's a friend of Bondi's and he sees her as completely qualified for the job.

With former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) out of the running as head of the Justice Department, Republican senators are shifting their attention to another one of Donald Trump’s controversial nominees.

While former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has made some eyebrow-raising comments – including her calls for the U.S. government to “drop all charges” against Edward Snowden – and taken other curious foreign policy views, Trump still selected her as director of national intelligence in his new administration.

Donald Trump received a slap on the wrist Friday from the Wall Street Journal in the form of a snarky editorial video that lists multiple lessons they urge the president-elect to learn.

Ominous music pulses underneath a dire video editorial that warns Trump he needs to change his ways after initially selecting former Rep. Matt Gaetz as his attorney general nominee.

Former Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera was overjoyed that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) dropped out of contention to serve as Donald Trump's next attorney general, he told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Friday.

"I first want to get your thoughts on Gaetz," said Keilar. "Are you surprised that Trump didn't end up going to the mat politically for him?"

President Elect-Donald Trump is reportedly expected to offer a businesswoman and former U.S. Senator from Georgia the job of Agriculture secretary, CNN reported Friday.

Trump was expected to meet with Kelly Loeffler at Mar-a-Lago on Friday afternoon, according to the report.

Senate Democrats are under massive pressure to fight Donald Trump as he prepares for his second term — and they are coalescing around a strategy to do so, reported Carl Hulse for The New York Times.

Specifically, they have realized Trump is damaging the GOP with his most controversial Cabinet nominations, and they can simply sit back and let Republicans fight over what their incoming president is doing.