Trump team looks to roll back student debt relief in latest move targeting American pocketbooks: Live

Here’s more on the president-elect’s latest broadside against the Big Apple newspaper and its famed correspondent.

The president-elect was driving a buggy around his Trump International Golf Club at West Palm Beach when he spotted the girl and offered this strange compliment.

James Liddell attempts to make sense of it.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump repeatedly told his supporters that tariffs are “not going to be a cost to you, it’s a cost to another country”.

But that claim has been widely dismissed by economists.

Before Election Day, the Bloomberg editorial board issued a warning slamming the claim as a “popular delusion”.

So while Trump claims his tariffs plan will hurt US trade partners, what does it actually mean for American consumers?

Rhian Lubin takes a closer look.

Influential conservatives are currently having a lot of fun joking about buying liberal news network MSNBC and standing in for its top hosts.

In a series of recent posts on X, that platform’s owner Elon Musk, the president-elect’s son Donald Trump Jr and podcaster Joe Rogan fantasized about what they would do if they owned the channel and mocked host Lawrence O’Donnell in distrubing fashion.

Josh Marcus has more.

The former House speaker has called Matt Gaetz’s nomination to become Trump’s attorney general a “fear for all young girls” in the latest war of words between the longtime Republican foes.

There’s been no love lost between the two former GOP congressmen ever since Gaetz led the charge to oust McCarthy as speaker in October 2023.

On Monday, the injured party couldn’t resist sticking the knife in over Gaetz’s shortlived bid to join Trump’s administration when he appeared on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime.

McCarthy commended the Trump administration for getting rid of the “problem” and took a swipe at Gaetz, saying that young girls “need their justice”.

James Liddell reports.

Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees will receive “sweeping security clearances” and only receive FBI background checks once the 47th president’s administration takes over that bureau, The Guardian reports this morning.

That could mean that his appointees do not classified briefings until Trump takes office on January 20, the latest evidence of the Republican’s scornful attitude towards the bureau and its vetting process, which he appears to regard as a tiresome obstacle to his aims, rather than a highly necessary security safeguard.

“The Trump-Vance transition lawyers continue to constructively engage with the Biden-Harris administration lawyers regarding all agreements contemplated by the Presidential Transition Act. We will update you once a decision is made,” Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes said in a statement responding to the story.

Republican Representative Lauren Boebert briefly followed her former colleagues Matt Gaetz and George Santos onto the paid video app Cameo – before abruptly deactivating her account.

The controversial Colorado representative posted a clip on Saturday offering “America First pep talks”, birthday wishes, or other recorded messages for a fee of $250 or more.

The account reportedly did not initially identify her as a serving congresswoman, instead describing her as an “influencer”, a “political commentator” and “not your typical Republican politician”.

But according to reports, the account soon stopped taking bookings and then went offline entirely after experts questioned whether it would break congressional ethics laws.

Io Dodds has more.

The president-elect has endorsed Florida’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis as his personal choice to replace Matt Gaetz in the House of Representatives.

Gaetz stepped down from his seat in the House earlier this month after Trump nominated him to lead the Department of Justice, only to then withdraw his bid to be attorney general last week as allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use mounted, despite his denials.

Here’s the latest from Katie Hawkinson on Patronis.

Another day, another serving of macho rhetoric from Homan on Fox News as he outlines his plans for enforcing the mass deportation of illegal immigrants next year.

Here’s a bonus video of Jesse Watters invoking one of Trump’s creepier recent pronouncements in discussion of the same Colorado city.

The president-elect unexpectedly lashed out at the newspaper overnight, demanding an apology for its critical coverage of him and reserving particular ire for correspondent Maggie Haberman – or “Magot Hagerman”, as Trump prefers.

He may well have been annoyed by Haberman’s latest story about his aide, Natalie Harp, which contains the interesting detail that she sent him a series of passionate letters, declaring in one: “You are all that matters to me.”

Equally, he might have been upset by Haberman’s appearance on Kaitlan Collins’s CNN show last night, in which she speculated about the prospect of Trump ordering a revenge investigation into Jack Smith once he takes office.

Here’s Mike Bedigan with more on Harp.