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Assembling the team. I'm Paul Stevens. Fox News. President-elect Donald Trump almost done making his cabinet choices three weeks post-election. Fox's Madeline Rivera with the latest. President-elect Trump made one of the most anticipated announcements, his choice of Scott Besant as Treasury Secretary comes after days of uncertainty and a reported fierce battle for the coveted role. Besant is the founder of hedge fund Key Square Capital Management. Besant is the founder of Key Square Capital Management.
Besson had advocated for a three by three by three approach to the economy. And the idea is to cut the budget deficit to three percent of GDP by 2028, push economic growth to three percent using tax policies and produce an additional three million barrels of oil per day.
President-elect Trump has nearly filled out his cabinet. Just four positions remain open. And other recent picks include former NFL player Scott Turner, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Fox News medical contributor Jeanette Neshwat as Surgeon General.
President-elect Trump's sentencing is delayed in his New York state trial for falsifying business records. Trump's team is celebrating this as a win. Here's where we stand right now. Sentencing is delayed with President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers set to file their motion to dismiss the case by December 2nd. Then Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg's office needs to respond to that by December 9th. Separately, Judge Mershon is pushing off his decision on presidential immunity.
Trump's lawyers, including his pick for deputy attorney general Todd Blanch, wrote Merchant this week, arguing the case interferes with Trump's preparations to return to the White House. But prosecutors want to stretch the case out more than four years and sentence Trump after his second term.
And that is Fox's Nate Foy. Now, meantime, Trump's attorneys argue that Judge Mershon should overturn the guilty verdict altogether on the grounds of presidential immunity. America's listening to Fox News. You've started that business.
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Some Republican lawmakers appear ready to make cuts to federal spending targeting jobs they feel are unnecessary. On Capitol Hill, Hillary Vaughn with the Fox Business Network. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says she cannot wait to get to work gutting useless government agencies that she says is wasting taxpayer money. Greene does have a business background. She ran a construction company, so she's no stranger to using the power tools which may be necessary for the sizable amount of cutting that needs to be done from the government budget.
Green saying one of the top orders of business will be giving people the pink slip, saying this, quote, in government, bad employees, whether they're failing to do the job they were hired to do or working in roles that are no longer needed, never get fired. This is incredibly unfair to the hardworking taxpayers of our country, and it's about to change.
Green and Comer have already met with Vivek Ramaswamy and the Doge team. They're going to be working hand in hand to find every wasted penny. And that new Department of Government Efficiency is going to be led by Tesla boss Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning the U.S. and NATO not to get involved further in the Russia-Ukraine war. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in a televised address, essentially warned those Western countries and the United States about taking any further aggression into Russia. He made the announcement that his forces struck Ukraine with an intermediate-range missile that had nuclear capabilities.
Earlier in the week, Ukraine got the green light from President Biden to use both American-made and supplied long-range missiles. Biden and Zelensky have enjoyed a close relationship. Zelensky now has the job to win over President-elect Trump. Many inside the Republican Party that are close to Trump say Ukraine aid should be slowed down, if not cut off completely. And that is Fox's David Spunt at the White House. I'm Paul Stevens, and this is Fox News.
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