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f State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in the afternoon. ... It was Biden who offered t

.S. Marine Corps.... The president met privately with Vice President Pence for lunch and with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in the afternoon. ... It was Biden who offered the first public condolences to the families of the service members who died in Egypt ... By that ti

d he plans to overturn the executive order. (Stars and Stripes) • The Biden team is reaching out to people who worked for former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis about helping him with the transition and possibly serving in the new administration. (Politico) • Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are gung-ho abou

est demonstrations of public repudiation of the Puerto Rican government in its history. (Arelis R. Hernandez and Jeff Stein) 2. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he's making progress in negotiating a budget deal with Democrats but that significant provisions remained unresolved. Mnuchin, in an int

tary Steven Mnuchin said that he's making progress in negotiating a budget deal with Democrats but that significant provisions remained unresolved. Mnuchin, in an interview on CNBC from France, said negotiators had agreed to "top line" spending numbers for 2020 and 2021. Some lawmakers expressed conce

Davies THE BIG IDEA: President Trump has soured on hiring generals, whom he stocked his administration with at the beginning. Remember John Kelly, Jim Mattis, Michael Flynn and H.R. McMaster. But the billionaire's fondness has grown for stocking the Cabinet with lobbyists, lawyers and executives from the

k as soon as they could raise other money. (Steve Mnuchin, then the campaign’s finance chairman, came to co

han likely.” In the end, the best Trump would do is loan the campaign $10 million, provided he got it back as soon as they could raise other money. (Steve Mnuchin, then the campaign’s finance chairman, came to collect the loan with the wire instructions ready to go, so Trump couldn’t conveniently forget to send

nt of Michael Flynn—a favorite Trump general who’d been the opening act at many Trump rallies—as the National Security Advisor. “He’s fine. He’s not Jim Mattis and he’s not John Kelly ... but he’s fine. He just needs the right staff around him.” Still, Bannon averred: “When you take out all the never- Trump