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Filling another key post, I'm Paul Stevens, Fox News. President-elect Donald Trump tapping Scott Besant as Secretary of the Treasury, and he continues to shape up his new cabinet. A slew of other nominees have also been announced. Reports say former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler has been tapped as the nominee for Secretary of Agriculture. Loeffler is a businesswoman who grew up on a family farm in Illinois and served on the Agriculture Committee during her time in the Senate.
On Thursday, the president-elect announced former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi would replace Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general. The transition team says nominees will continue meeting with senators after the Thanksgiving recess. Those meetings have been led by Vice President-elect and current Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. In Washington, Ryan Schmelz.
Fox News. And also President-elect Trump announcing on Friday he's nominating Representative Lori Chavez-Duramer to be the nation's Secretary of Labor. And the President-elect's sentencing is delayed in his New York state trial for falsifying business records. Fox's Nate Foy. 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 Mershon 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. Meantime, Mr. Trump's attorneys argue that Judge Juan Marichan should overturn the guilty verdict altogether on the grounds of presidential immunity. America's listening to Fox News.
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Republican lawmakers are quick to make cuts to federal spending, targeting jobs they think are unnecessary. Hillary Vaughn with the Fox Business Network on Capitol Hill. 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 Department of Government Efficiency is set to be led by Tesla founder Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Congress furious after the heads of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were no-shows to recent public safety hearings. Christopher Wray and Alejandro Mayorkas may have sparked bipartisanship.
Democrats and Republicans are fuming after the duo skipped a pair of hearings on global threats this week. There's the risk of terrorism, possibly fueled by those in the country illegally. Wray and Mayorkas offered to brief lawmakers behind closed doors. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Gary Peters called the lack of transparency, quote, a blow to trust. Wray would not openly share with Congress what keeps him up at night.
but he was candid at a dinner for the FBI. And that's Fox's chat program on Capitol Hill. These four people said to be dead in an Israeli airstrike targeting a top Hezbollah leader in Beirut. I'm Paul Stevens, and this is Fox News. From the Fox News Podcasts Network, subscribe and listen to the Trey Gowdy Podcast. Former federal prosecutor and four-term U.S. congressman from South Carolina brings you a one-of-a-kind podcast. Subscribe and listen now by going to foxnewspodcasts.com.
