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A Democratic senator warned Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump's push for recess nominations might spell the end of the U.S. Senate.

Speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper after the announcement that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was Trump's pick for attorney general, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said he saw jaws drop among his colleagues.

Federal prosecutors and other career lawyers at the Justice Department have their hair on fire about Donald Trump nominating scandal-plagued MAGA Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for attorney general, CNN's Jamie Gangel told anchor Jake Tapper on Wednesday — but more than that, she said, Senate Republicans are revolted by the idea.

In the event they do confirm him, she added, the results could be terrifying.

A political columnist is blaming President-elect Donald Trump's Election Day victory on celebrity endorsements — including Beyoncé's.

Slate editor Hillary Frey on Wednesday issued a condemnation of Vice President Kamala Harris' celebrity endorsements — and took a subtle jab at Beyonce in particular in an off-hand reference to the superstar's nickname.

Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman couldn't hold it together when President-elect Donald Trump announced Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as his pick for attorney general.

About 10 minutes before the selection, Sherman was on air saying former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI) would struggle to survive a confirmation hearing for the Director of National Intelligence.

Donald Trump's nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to be Attorney General has caused an explosion on social media — with a number of MAGA accounts celebrating, but legal experts and other observers horrified.

Furthermore, it appears unclear whether Gaetz, who has been one of Trump's fiercest attack dogs in Congress and faced a highly-publicized FBI investigation and subsequent congressional ethics inquiry over alleged sex trafficking, retaliation, drug use, and campaign finance offenses, will get through even a Republican-dominated Senate.

One of President-elect Donald Trump's staunchest defenders on CNN is in the running to serve as the next White House Press Secretary, Politico reported Wednesday.

Scott Jennings, who previously served as an aide to former President George W. Bush and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), has become a regular on panels discussing Trump and the Republican Party, where he often raises the ire of the rest of the panel by defending Trump's more outrageous statements and actions.

President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI) to serve as the Director of National Intelligence, but critics and analysts aren't certain that will actually happen.

"This will be the most difficult nomination to get through the United States Congress, period, hard stop," said Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman. She and "Pete Hegseth, right? I don't know that Tulsi Gabbard gets confirmed by the Senate. I'll put it that way. Again, he has chosen a lot of people with easy paths to confirmation."

A powerful conservative communications strategist doesn't believe Republicans will be able to come up with the cash for President-elect Donald Trump's massive deportation plans, he said Wednesday.

Brendan Buck, onetime press secretary to former House Speaker John Boehner, appeared on MSNBC Wednesday to discuss Trump's potential to streamline campaign promises that will come with hefty price tags.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as the next attorney general of the United States.

Trump confirmed the selection in a statement posted to his Truth Social platform.

President-elect Donald Trump selected former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to be his Director of National Intelligence, according to Roger Stone.

In a statement first provided to Roger Stone, Trump said he was "pleased to announce that former Congresswoman, Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard, will serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI)."

President-elect Donald Trump's threats of revenge against "enemies from within" could prove unachievable if President Joe Biden takes unprecedented and immediate action, a legal expert argued Wednesday.

Attorney Paul Rosenzweig, a longtime critic of the president-elect, argued for the Atlantic that Biden might be able to protect some of the people Trump is most likely to target by preemptively issuing pardons.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to respond to Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy after he posed a question about a hypothetical golf match between President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump.

During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Doocy inquired into a meeting between the president and the president-elect that occurred earlier in the day.

President-elect Donald Trump's plans to make the federal government more efficient with help from his billionaire buddies is spurring chuckles from experts who find the plan absurd — and dangerous.

Trump this week claimed Elon Musk will lead a so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" to cut down on unnecessary government spending by decimating federal agencies — but experts predict he'll orchestrate a clown show tinged with corruption, E&E News by Politico reported Wednesday.