Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda

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Calheel said:
I’d turn that down if I were Elise. Power position in the House is more powerful and prestigious than UN ambassador.
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Agree. AND she obviously gives up her upstate NY seat with the likely GOP margin razor thin. I assume the Gov. is allowed to appoint a Dem to the seat and then a special election is held? The GOP challengers would then be running against an incumbent. I don’t think it’s worth the risk.

She, like Haley before her, likely wants the position to bolster her foreign policy experience in front of a 2028 Presidential run.
 
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“… Homan touts hard-line immigration views and previously vowed to “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.”

He was an early supporter of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which led to thousands of families being separated at the southern border. Trump eventually signed an executive order in 2018 reversing the family separation policy after public outcry.

In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired in October, Homan was asked whether there was a way to carry out mass deportations without separating families.

"Of course there is. Families can be deported together," he responded.

Will Trump's immigrant family separation policies make comeback?
Homan is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative group. He was a contributor to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership book. …”

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Trump announces Tom Homan as incoming border czar

Homan touts hard-line immigration views and has previously vowed to “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.”
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Jerome Powell apparently intends to fight for his job.

If Trump Tries to Fire Powell, Fed Chair Is Ready for a Legal Fight​

Jerome Powell was prepared to go to court when the president floated his dismissal six years ago. If it happens again, the Fed chair might have to pay the legal tab himself.​


“… Six years later, Trump is heading back to the White House and the dormant drama of his fraught relationship with Powell is back on display.

When asked last week whether he would resign if asked to do so, Powell offered a one-word reply: “No.”

He gave the same answer when asked if the president had the authority to dismiss him.

… Powell, a former private-equity executive who has a law degree, was later pressed to explain his rationale. He delivered another curt response: “Not permitted under the law.”

His unflinching rejoinders laid bare the prospect that any attempt to force Powell to leave before his term ends in 2026 would likely be resolved in an unprecedented legal battle—the same one Fed leaders had prepared for years ago.

“If the president were to succeed at this, that would mean every future chair is subject to removal at the whim of the president,” said Scott Alvarez, who served as the Fed’s general counsel from 2004 to 2017.

“I don’t think that’s a precedent Jay would want to set, and that’s why I think he would fight it. This is a humongous precedent.” …

 
Calheel said:
I’d turn that down if I were Elise. Power position in the House is more powerful and prestigious than UN ambassador.
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Yes, but being in the House is utterly miserable. Especially since Elise has to wear an identity that she might very well loathe. UN ambassador gets her out of the spotlight and lets her drop the MAGA stylings periodically.
 
superrific said:
Yes, but being in the House is utterly miserable. Especially since Elise has to wear an identity that she might very well loathe. UN ambassador gets her out of the spotlight and lets her drop the MAGA stylings periodically.
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She didn't have to wear an identity. She chose to. No one makes that choice if they don't love power. I suppose she could be having regrets, but I highly, highly doubt it.
 
Calheel said:
She didn't have to wear an identity. She chose to. No one makes that choice if they don't love power. I suppose she could be having regrets, but I highly, highly doubt it.
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Absolutely. I'm just saying that maybe she wants a break from it.

Another consideration is that the Pubs are almost certainly going to lose the House in 2026, unless Trump pulls off some sort of miracle economic plan or they stop elections. I don't know if Elise is in any danger, but if you have a chance to be in the cabinet for four years or a narrow majority for two and a minority for two more, it's not clear to me which is superior.

And finally, MAGA mask or not, the GOP house is a miserable place to be. They can't even elect a speaker. They basically all hate each other.
 
superrific said:
Absolutely. I'm just saying that maybe she wants a break from it.

Another consideration is that the Pubs are almost certainly going to lose the House in 2026, unless Trump pulls off some sort of miracle economic plan or they stop elections. I don't know if Elise is in any danger, but if you have a chance to be in the cabinet for four years or a narrow majority for two and a minority for two more, it's not clear to me which is superior.

And finally, MAGA mask or not, the GOP house is a miserable place to be. They can't even elect a speaker. They basically all hate each other.
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Is UN Ambassador a cabinet position? I thought it was part of State. Even if it is cabinet level, it is not as though there are regular cabinet meetings at the white house, other than to genuflect to Dear Leader.
 
superrific said:
Absolutely. I'm just saying that maybe she wants a break from it.

Another consideration is that the Pubs are almost certainly going to lose the House in 2026, unless Trump pulls off some sort of miracle economic plan or they stop elections. I don't know if Elise is in any danger, but if you have a chance to be in the cabinet for four years or a narrow majority for two and a minority for two more, it's not clear to me which is superior.

And finally, MAGA mask or not, the GOP house is a miserable place to be. They can't even elect a speaker. They basically all hate each other.
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I think even with a slimmer majority, they may be less miserable for a while because the trouble-makers are MAGA absolutists who will all fall in line behind Trump, which makes the Speaker’s job a lot easier.

The cracks will eventually show, because they always do in politics, but Mike Johnson will get a honeymoon coattail ride from Trump’s governing honeymoon, I think.
 
nycfan said:
I think even with a slimmer majority, they may be less miserable for a while because the trouble-makers are MAGA absolutists who will all fall in line behind Trump, which makes the Speaker’s job a lot easier.

The cracks will eventually show, because they always do in politics, but Mike Johnson will get a honeymoon coattail ride from Trump’s governing honeymoon, I think.
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You might be right, but the cracks will begin when Trump's governing agenda runs us into a ditch. The Trump will be telling his loyalists it's someone else's fault, and meanwhile there will be members retiring left and right rather than get shellacked, and they will blame the Speaker because that's what they do. I wouldn't want to be a part of that.

Of course, I wouldn't want to be a part of the House period, so my views are not the best proxies for Stefanik.
 
CRHeel94 said:
Every time I try to convince myself "Maybe it won't be so bad", I instantly snap out of it knowing this incredible asshole will play an evermore important role in the Trump second term.

Can't wait for him and Musk to battle it out.
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I do think it will be interesting to see how the power dynamics in the Trump admin play out. There seem to be at least three distinct groups in Trump's leadership coalition right now: (1) the Miller/Bannon MAGA hardliners, (2) the Musk/Thiel/Ramaswamy crypto-friendly, deregulation-hungry futurists, and (3) the more traditional right-wing conservatives (Susie Wiles, Heritage foundation types, and Trump's congressional allies like Cruz, Scott, etc). Their goals overlap in many ways, but clash in some interesting ways as well. Right now everyone is mostly playing together well, but they're jockeying for position and influence and at the first sign of crisis/trouble, the knives will start to come out internally. Then we'll get to see who has the most pull with Trump and/or can best bend him to their will. It will probably be best in the short-term if the Wiles-led "adults in the room" faction come out ahead, because they are most likely to want to moderate Trump's worst excesses. It will probably be best in the long term (though chaotic and cruel in the short term) if Miller and his allies grab the reins, because I think they'll break so much, so fast that the public will recoil in horror. The Musk/Thiel/Ramaswamy group may also break a lot of things fast if they're allowed, but given Musk's control of Twitter and that group's influence with tech leaders and platforms generally, they are the ones most likely to be able to assert a dangerous level of control over information and messaging in a way that will keep the public in the dark. They also have, IMO, a truly disturbing vision of a new world order with themselves at the head. For that reason, they're the group that scares me the most.
 
Representative Michael Waltz to be NatSec Advisor.

Former Representative Lee Zeldin to run EPA.

Marco Rubio to be Sec of State.
 
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