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Donald Trump's selection of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to head up the Justice Department following the implosion of his nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is largely motivated by a deep desire for loyalty — Bondi was accused of accepting campaign contributions to shut down a probe into Trump University and served as Trump's defense counsel during the first impeachment trial.

But one group of Trump loyalists in particular are worried she may not go to bat for them, Politico reported Friday: Jan. 6 defendants.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday night nominated an Oregon congresswoman to become the nation's next labor secretary, touting her as the right person for the job to grow languishing wages and resurrect manufacturing jobs.

Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) was the first Republican woman to represent the state in the House and one of the first two Hispanic women from the state elected to Congress. She has in the past touted her "strong record of delivering bipartisan results."

Donald Trump's new plan to strong-arm the Justice Department goes well beyond what any president in modern history has ever done, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig warned CNN's Pamela Brown on Friday.

According to new reports, Trump plans to fire career prosecutors who worked under outgoing special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the two federal criminal cases against him. This comes as Trump, who in his previous term reportedly even wanted to use the Justice Department to target comedians who made fun of him, nominates a close ally, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, to head up that very department.

Donald Trump’s choice of Tulsi Gabbard to be his next administration’s director of national intelligence is igniting new scrutiny after reports surfaced Friday that the former Hawaiian congresswoman was briefly placed on a government watch list.

According to CNN, Gabbard’s overseas travel patterns and foreign connections landed her on a Transportation Security Administration list, which triggers additional security screening before flights. She was quickly removed, however, after she took to social media to claim she was added to a “secret terror watchlist.”

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.