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President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team is actively rejecting a possible Department of Health and Human Services senior role contender, according to Politico.

CNN senior reporter Andy Kaczynski wrote via X, "wow: Donald Trump’s transition team has rejected a push to install a prominent Project 2025 author Roger Severino in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services over concerns that his strident anti-abortion views would prove too controversial."

A Republican strategist wondered aloud on CNN on Thursday night if Capitol Hill may not have seen the last of embattled former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's first nominee for attorney general, resigned from Congress on Nov. 14, days ahead of an expected House Ethics Committee vote on whether to release a report into the panel's investigation into allegations against him, including sexual misconduct with a minor, drug use, campaign finance violations and accepting improper gifts.

Three CNN political experts collectively agreed Thursday that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is a far superior pick to lead Donald Trump’s Justice Department than the scandal-plagued former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

The rare agreement between panelists on CNN’s “OutFront,” which included a former senior Obama adviser and longtime Republican strategist, came just after Trump named Bondi — his former impeachment defense lawyer — to replace Gaetz, who bowed out earlier Thursday.

A federal district judge has scheduled a civil contempt hearing for longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani, over claims that he is continuing to publicly attack election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, reported the Huffington Post on Thursday.

Judge Beryl Howell directed Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City, "to respond to the motion for civil contempt by Dec. 2. The former election workers will then have until Dec. 6 to file their response to Giuliani. The first hearing in the case will be held on Dec. 12 at the federal courthouse near the U.S. Capitol."

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warned Dr. Anthony Fauci — the chief medical advisor to the president during the COVID-19 pandemic — that she will have subpoena power soon as a member of a new House subcommittee that will work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Greene and House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) reportedly met with Ramaswamy and were “already working together,” CNBC reported Thursday. Comer hoped to establish the subpanel early next year.

Moments before President-elect Donald Trump announced his replacement pick for attorney general, a legal analyst said she expected him to select a "bomb-thrower."

The collapse of Matt Gaetz’s nomination had Trump on the hunt for the country’s next attorney general – and that person was likely to be cut from the same cloth as the former Republican lawmaker who grew a reputation as a Washington rabble-rouser.

Hours after his pick for attorney general removed himself from consideration, Donald Trump announced his replacement pick on Truth Social: former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

"I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next Attorney General of the United States," wrote Trump. "Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on Violent Criminals, and made the streets safe for Florida Families. Then, as Florida’s first female Attorney General, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country. She did such an incredible job, that I asked her to serve on our Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission during my first Term — We saved many lives!"

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, is best known for his conspiracy theories about vaccines, COVID-19, and AIDS — but those are not the only ideas he has for overhauling the federal government. In particular, according to The Washington Post, he wants to make a significant technical overhaul to the way Medicare works.

Specifically, according to the report, he wants to audit and overhaul how medical billing codes work for the national insurance program for America's seniors — an idea that even many Democrats have pushed for years.

A lawsuit accusing Linda McMahon of turning a blind eye to the sexual abuse of children by a World Wresting Entertainment employee dating back to the 1980s is raising new questions about another one of Donald Trump’s cabinet selections.

“The big question here is what did Linda McMahon know and when? CNN’s Katelyn Polantz said Thursday in a segment on “The Lead” discussing the lawsuit. The Maryland court case was filed in October by a group of former “ring boys” who say they were abused by ringside announcer Melvin Phillips Jr. when they were between 13 and 15 years old, the network reported.

Donald Trump's spokesman Steven Cheung is not happy about how the press reported on emergency vehicles being present at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday.

Cheung, who previously did communications for UFC before signing on with Trump's campaign and is tapped to serve as the next White House communications director, was reacting to The Independent's Andrew Feinberg posting, "NOW: Per pool, 2 ambulances and several vans that appeared full of @SecretService have left Mar-a-Lago in the last few minutes" on X.

President-elect Donald Trump learned the limits of his power Thursday in the form of a disastrous day on Capitol Hill, a new analysis contended.

And that was never the plan for the incoming president who vowed to install a loyalist within the Justice Department. But Sen. J.D. Vance’s inability to sell Trump’s pick of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to Republican senators showed the president-elect he can't bully his party to simply do his bidding, according to Politico.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed she was "very disappointed" after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general — and called for releasing a secret list of other sexual harassment lawsuits against other lawmakers.

During a Thursday interview on Real America's Voice, Greene reacted to Gaetz dropping out just minutes before CNN reported that a woman told the House Ethics Committee the former lawmaker engaged in sexual misconduct with her at least twice when she was 17.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper expressed rare frustration Thursday as he shouted and openly laughed at a conservative commentator on live television.

Tapper took pundit Shermichael Singleton to task over his attempts to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Republicans' response that he would cost too much political capital.