| | | | Trump talks policy, says TPP is DOA | | President-elect Donald Trump unveiled plans Monday for his first 100 days in office, including proposals related to immigration, trade deals and defense policy, using a video published online to briefly outline his goals, CNN's Tom LoBianco reports.
The first casualty: the TPP. Among his first actions, the Republican said he would "issue our notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership" and replace it with negotiating "fair bilateral trade deals." Trump campaigned on a promise to halt the progress of the TPP trade deal, an agreement President Barack Obama had hoped would be a part of his administration's trade legacy.
On immigration, Trump promised to "investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker," but did not mention his signature campaign promise of building a wall along the US border with Mexico. Trump also made no mention of some of his other signature items, like repealing Obama's signature health care law and spending $1 trillion on infrastructure -- all measures that are likely to require the support of Congress. Instead, he focused exclusively on campaign promises that would not require congressional approval.
Here's Trump's video: | | Transition update: Trump meets a House Democrat | | Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard met with President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team Monday. Gabbard, who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, is being considered for jobs at the Defense Department, State Department and the United Nations, a source told CNN's Sara Murray.
In other transition news: Florida Gov. Rick Scott -- who didn't rule out a 2018 Senate run when we chatted in Orlando last week -- says he won't serve in Trump's administration. And retired Marine Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis would have to clear a legal hurdle -- with the help of Congress -- to become Trump's defense secretary. | | | Potential Trump Cabinet member Kris Kobach might want to invest in a folder. | | Alt-right leader: 'Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!' | | The racism and anti-Semitism of the alt-right movement were on display Saturday in Washington when its members gathered to celebrate Donald Trump's victory. Remarks made by Richard Spencer, the president of the alt-right National Policy Institute, were posted Sunday on YouTube by "Red Ice Radio," which describes itself as "covering politics and social issues from a pro-European perspective." The Atlantic magazine, which is recording footage of Spencer for a documentary it is working on, also published a video of the same event showing audience members apparently giving the Nazi salute. "Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!" Spencer declared. Here's The New York Times' story on the gathering.
It gets a little weirder. Tila Tequila, a Vietnamese-American best known for her short-lived MTV dating show, flashed "sieg heil" Nazi salutes while dining with alt-righters at Maggiano's Little Italy in D.C.'s Friendship Heights neighborhood, per The Daily Beast's Asawin Suebsaeng. | | | This caused a headache for Maggiano's. The restaurant said the event was booked as a family gathering -- and that it would donate its $10,000 profit from the night to the Anti-Defamation League, The Washington City Paper's Laura Hayes writes. | | | Donald Trump led what the New York Post is calling a "firing squad" meeting with media honchos today. ... North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is alleging voter fraud in a bid to hang onto his job. | | | We'd love to share our other newsletters with you. Check out CNNMoney's Reliable Sources, an insider's look into the media brought to you by Brian Stelter. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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