President-elect Trump is nominating officials to fill his Administration at a breakneck pace, with a flurry of new posts filled just since Friday. We don’t want to turn the newsletter into a long list of names and resumes, so we’ll first point you to this page from Fox News that provides an ongoing tally and background info, then focus on a few appointments of special interest.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/from-cdc-labor-secretary-see-trumps-top-picks-cabinet-roles

Trump supporters were likely pleased that Trump chose Scott Bessant as Treasury Secretary. A longtime Trump economic adviser and founder of Key Square Group, Bessant is a major investment expert and supporter of low taxes, deregulation, government spending restraint and using tariffs as a trade negotiation tool.

Trump also named Russ Vought to head the Office of Management and Budget, a role he previously filled in Trump’s first term.

Scott Turner, an NFL veteran and former head of Trump’s White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, was named to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which could certainly use some revitalization. Democrats on the federal, state and local levels have spent billions if not trillions on housing, yet affordable housing seems to get scarcer and scarcer in blue states.

(Latest example: California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to build 1200 tiny homes in Sacramento to house the homeless. A year later, not a single tiny home has opened. Maybe they're waiting for Kamala to have that government Internet access up and running.)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/24/report-none-of-gavin-newsoms-1200-tiny-homes-has-opened-a-year-later/

Some of Trump’s most headline-grabbing appointments include Dr. Marty Makary, an outspoken critic of the government’s COVID response, as commissioner of the FDA…Former White House adviser and Fox News contributor Dr. Sebastian Gorka as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism…And Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor Secretary and Dr. Janette Nesheiwat as Surgeon General. As you can read at the links below, those last two nominations raised some strenuous objections, and not from Democrats for a change, but from Trump supporters.

https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/11/24/trump-really-screwed-the-pooch-with-his-surgeon-general-nomination-n4934584

https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/11/23/his-honeymoon-is-over-for-me-trumps-pick-for-labor-secretary-is-a-teachers-union-fave-n4934572