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    Trump Appointees

    Here are the people whose names have been floated for Trump’s Cabinet

    The latest on the contenders – from rumored to named – for top spots in the Trump administration. Latest transition updates
    Update: Gingrich says he won’t hold Cabinet post under Trump
    Updated Nov. 18 at 11:07 a.m.


    Agriculture secretary
    Current head: Tom Vilsack

    Names floated

    Sam Brownback
    Kansas governor Source Trump promised big income-tax cuts while campaigning. Brownback slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 in hopes of stimulating Kansas's economy. (More)



    Chuck Conner
    CEO, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives Source Not to be mistaken with Chuck Conner III, Maryland Democratic Party executive director. The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives has advocated giving undocumented immigrants who work in the agriculture industry permanent legal status. (More)



    Dave Heineman
    Former Nebraska governor Source


    Tim Huelskamp
    Outgoing Kansas congressman Source A member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus who repeatedly clashed with Republican House leadership, Huelskamp lost his August primary to a local physician. (More)



    Sid Miller
    Texas agricultural commissioner Source Miller, an adviser to Trump, made waves with a tweet weeks ago in which he called Hillary Clinton a "c--t." It was soon deleted, blamed on a “third-party vendor.” (More)



    Sonny Perdue
    Former Georgia governor Source




    Commerce secretary
    Current head: Penny Pritzker

    Names floated

    Wilbur Ross
    Founder of investment firm WL Ross & Co. Source Ross is a venture capitalist who has focused on buying businesses in distress. (More)



    Mike Huckabee
    Former Arkansas governor Source


    Dan DiMicco
    Former Nucor CEO Source


    Lew Eisenberg
    RNC finance chair Source Headed the Republican National Committee’s joint fundraising effort with the campaign.



    David Perdue
    Senator from Georgia Source




    Defense secretary
    The defense secretary heads a department with more than 25,000 employees on-site, not to mention the nearly 2 million members of the armed services and reserves, and a budget that constitutes about a sixth of all federal spending.
    Current head: Ashton B. Carter

    Names floated

    Tom Cotton
    Senator from Arkansas Source An Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afganistan and, at 39, is the youngest member of the Senate.



    Stephen Hadley
    Former national security adviser Source


    Jim Talent
    Former senator from Missouri Source


    Duncan D. Hunter
    California congressman Source


    Kelly Ayotte
    Outgoing senator from New Hampshire Source If chosen, Ayotte would stand out in a Trump administration as a neoconservative defense hawk and one of the few women in the Cabinet.





    Education secretary
    Trump, who called the Common Core State Standards a “total disaster,” has met with some proponents of the program while considering who will head the Education Department. Some conservatives have urged him not to fill the job at all, to signal his intention to eliminate the department, an action he said during the campaign that he would consider.
    Current head: John B. King Jr.

    Names floated

    Williamson Evers
    Hoover Institution research fellow Source


    Michelle Rhee
    Education activist, former chancellor of D.C. Public Schools Source Several years ago, Rhee and Jeb Bush traveled the country urging states not to abandon the Common Core. She has called herself a lifelong Democrat. (More)



    Betsy DeVos
    Chairman of American Federation for Children, a pro-school-voucher advocacy group Source


    Kevin Chavous
    Former D.C. Council member and board member at American Federation for Children, a pro-school-voucher advocacy group Source




    Energy secretary
    Current head: Ernest Moniz

    Names floated

    Robert Grady
    Gryphon Investors partner Source


    Harold Hamm
    CEO, Continential Resources Source




    Health and Human Services secretary
    Current head: Sylvia Mathews Burwell

    Names floated

    Richard Bagger
    VP, Celgene Source Was recently replaced by Rick Dearborn, Sen. Jeff Sessions's chief of staff, as the transition’s executive director.



    Bobby Jindal
    Former Louisiana governor Source


    Tom Price
    Georgia congressman Source


    Newt Gingrich
    Former House speaker Source Seems unlikely
    Gingrich said he won’t hold a post in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet. (More)



    Ben Carson
    Retired neurosurgeon Source Seems unlikely
    “The way I’m leaning is to work from the outside and not from the inside,” Carson said in an interview. (More)





    Homeland Security secretary
    Few jobs are likely to be as high-profile in the Trump administration than chief of the Department of Homeland Security, the third-largest Cabinet department, with more than 240,000 employees whose jobs include fighting terrorism, protecting the president and enforcing immigration laws.
    Current head: Jeh Johnson

    Names floated

    Michael McCaul
    Texas congressman Source


    Joe Arpaio
    Arizona sheriff Source Arpaio was defeated in his bid for a seventh consecutive term as sheriff. He was charged with criminal contempt of court for resisting a judge’s order to stop detaining people solely on suspicion that they were undocumented immigrants. (More)



    David Clarke
    Milwaukee County sheriff Source Known for his campaign call for “pitchforks and torches.”





    Attorney General
    Current head: Loretta E. Lynch

    Names floated
    Announced
    Jeff Sessions
    Senator from Alabama Source Sessions, 69, was Trump’s first endorser in the Senate and quickly became the then-candidate’s chief resource on policy. Known for his hard-line views on immigration, the fourth-term senator has been dogged by accusations of racism throughout his career. In 1986, he was denied a federal judgeship after former colleagues testified before a Senate that he joked about the Ku Klux Klan.



    Kris Kobach
    Kansas secretary of state Source One of Trump’s top advisers, Kobach told Reuters that the president-elect’s advisers have discussed preparing a policy proposal for a registry for Muslims. (More)



    Henry McMaster
    Lieutenant governor of South Carolina Source McMaster, an early Trump endorser and a U.S. attorney in South Carolina from 1981 to 1985, told the Post and Courier that he has been talking to people on the Trump transition team. (More)



    Pam Bondi
    Florida attorney general Source Trump paid the IRS a $2,500 penalty this year after a $25,000 improper gift to Bondi from his foundation made in 2013. Bondi, the attorney general, was considering whether to investigate fraud allegations against Trump University. She decided not to pursue the case. (More)



    Rudolph W. Giuliani
    Former New York City mayor Source Seems unlikely
    Giuliani appeared to take himself out of the running for the position. “I won’t be attorney general,” he said at a Wall Street Journal event. (More)



    Chris Christie
    Governor of New Jersey Source Seems unlikely
    Mike Pence recently replaced Christie as chairman of Trump’s presidential transition effort. (More)





    Secretary of state
    Current head: John F. Kerry

    Names floated

    Rudolph W. Giuliani
    Former New York City mayor Source


    John Bolton
    Former U.N. ambassador Source Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, declared that he is inclined to oppose Bolton or Giuliani if either is nominated for secretary of state.



    Nikki Haley
    Governor of South Carolina Source Haley is reportedly being considered for several possible Cabinet positions, including secretary of state. She endorsed Marco Rubio in the GOP presidential primary. (More)



    Newt Gingrich
    Former speaker of the House Source Seems unlikely
    Gingrich said he won’t hold a post in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet. (More)



    Bob Corker
    Senator from Tennessee, Foreign Relations Committee chairman Source Seems unlikely
    "Has my name been in the mix? I’m pretty sure, yeah. Have I been having intimate conversations? No," Corker said in an interview. (More)





    Interior secretary
    Current head: Sally Jewell

    Names floated

    Jan Brewer
    Former Arizona governor Source


    Mary Fallin
    Governor of Oklahoma Source


    Cynthia M. Lummis
    Wyoming congresswoman Source


    Sarah Palin
    Former Alaska governor Source It's not clear how serious her consideration may be, but it's one that would certainly make liberals' heads spin. That said, Palin wasn't a hugely visible supporter of Trump on the campaign trail. (More)



    Forrest Lucas
    President, Lucas Oil Products Source


    Robert Grady
    Gryphon Investors partner Source


    Harold Hamm
    CEO, Continential Resources Source




    Treasury secretary
    Current head: Jack Lew

    Names floated

    Steve Mnuchin
    Banker Source Served as finance chair on Trump’s campaign. Some potentially thorny conflicts of interest related to his involvement in the federal bank bailout and accusations of discrimination could plague a Mnuchin nomination. (More)



    Wilbur Ross
    Founder of investment firm WL Ross & Co. Source Ross is a venture capitalist who has focused on buying businesses in distress. (More)



    Jeb Hensarling
    Texas congressman Source


    Thomas Barrack
    Founder, Colony Capital Source Global real estate investor and Trump business associate who hosted the candidate’s first fundraiser in May.





    Transportation secretary
    Naming a transportation secretary doesn’t seem to be a high priority in Trump Tower, despite the fact that the president-elect has promised to pour $1 trillion into roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
    Current head: Anthony Foxx

    Names floated

    Shirley Ybarra
    Former Reason Foundation senior transportation policy analyst Source Ybarra is the Trump transition team member tasked with finding the new Sec/Trans, and there’s talk that she may be a candidate for the job herself. (More)



    James S. Simpson
    Former New Jersey Department of Transportation commissioner Source Simpson ran New Jersey’s Department of Transportation under Chris Christie, but after Christie was banished from Trump’s inner-circle, Simpson may fall from favor. (More)



    Mark Rosenker
    Retired Air Force major general; former chair, National Transportation Safety Board Source


    John Mica
    Outgoing Florida congressman Source Lost his re-election bid for a House seat he’d held since 1992. (More)





    Veterans Affairs secretary
    Current head: Robert McDonald

    Names floated

    Jeff Miller
    Florida congressman Source




    Environmental Protection Agency administrator
    Current head: Gina McCarthy

    Names floated

    Myron Ebell
    Policy director, Competitive Enterprise Institute Source


    Robert Grady
    Gryphon Investors partner Source


    Jeffrey Holmstead
    Attorney, lobbyist for Bracewell; former EPA official Source


    Mike Catanzaro
    Partner at the lobbying firm CGCN; former EPA official Source



    White House staff


    Names floated
    Announced, Senior Counselor, Chief Strategist
    Stephen K. Bannon
    Breitbart chief Source Bannon’s appointment was denounced by advocacy groups and Democrats, who accuse him of racist, anti-Semitic and misogynist views. (More)


    Announced, Chief of Staff
    Reince Priebus
    RNC chair Source If the campaign is indeed the model for their White House partnership, Bannon will hold more sway over Trump than Priebus. (More)


    Announced, National security adviser
    Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
    Former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Source Trump asked Flynn, a retired lieutenant general with a record of incendiary statements about Muslims, to be his White House national security adviser. (More)



    Ken Blackwell
    Senior fellow, Family Research Council Source Blackwell, a prominent social conservative, is leading the transition’s domestic policy efforts, positioning him for a similar White House role.



    Don McGahn
    Transition chief counsel Source




    Source: Staff reports. Published Nov. 16, 2016.
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    Trump taps conservative Kansas congressman for CIA


    (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin). In this photo taken Oct. 16, 2015, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. According to a Trump official, Pompeo to be nominated for CIA director.

    President-elect Donald Trump has offered the CIA director job to Mike Pompeo, a hard-line Republican congressman from Kansas who heavily criticized the Iran deal, blasted Hillary Clinton over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya and believes Edward Snowden is a traitor.

    Before starting the job, Pompeo would have to be confirmed by the Senate. One issue that could dominate a confirmation hearing is Pompeo's views on using harsh interrogation techniques on detainees. Trump has backed these techniques, saying: "We should go tougher than waterboarding," which simulates drowning.

    In a statement, Pompeo said he was "honored and humbled" to accept Trump's nomination. He called the decision to leave Congress "difficult" but said the "opportunity to lead the world's finest intelligence warriors, who labor tirelessly to keep this nation and Kansas safe, is a call to service I cannot ignore."

    During the campaign, Trump suggested that he would push to change laws that prohibit waterboarding and other harsh techniques, saying that banning them puts the U.S. at a strategic disadvantage against Islamic State militants.

    Pompeo, 52, was elected to Congress during the tea party wave of 2010. He was appointed to the House Select Benghazi Committee to probe the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

    The panel's final report this summer sharply criticized the Obama administration for a series of mistakes but produced no new evidence pointing to wrongdoing by Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time.

    Pompeo and fellow Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio, however, issued a separate report slamming Clinton and the Obama administration. Pompeo told reporters that the former first lady and senator was "morally reprehensible."

    He also has been a fierce critic of Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, which granted Tehran sanctions relief for rolling back its nuclear weapons program. And he has said that Muslim leaders are "potentially complicit" in terrorist attacks if they do not denounce those made in the name of Islam.

    "They must cite the Koran as evidence that the murder of innocents is not permitted," he said in a 2013 House floor speech.

    A member of the House intelligence committee, Pompeo denounced Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who stole and leaked highly classified documents to journalists, revealing the NSA's bulk collection of millions of Americans' phone records.

    During an appearance on C-SPAN in February, Pompeo said Snowden should receive the death penalty for his actions.

    "He should be brought back from Russia and given due process and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence for having put friends of mine, friends of yours who serve in the military today at enormous risk because of the information he stole and then released to foreign powers," Pompeo said then.

    Despite their opposing views on many issues, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, congratulated Pompeo.

    "Mike is very bright and hard-working and will devote himself to helping the agency develop the best possible intelligence for policy makers," Schiff said. "While we have had our share of strong differences - principally on the politicization of the tragedy in Benghazi - I know that he is someone who is willing to listen and engage, both key qualities in a CIA director."

    Pompeo was born in Orange, California, and lives in Wichita, Kansas. He enrolled as a teenager at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. and graduated first in his class in 1986. According to biographical information on his House web site, Pompeo served as a "cavalry officer patrolling the Iron Curtain before the fall of the Berlin Wall."

    He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and was editor of the Harvard Law Review.

    After college, he set up Thayer Aerospace and was its chief executive officer for more than 10 years. Later he was president of Sentry International, a company that sold equipment for oil fields and manufacturing.

    He recently led a House Republican task force that found intelligence assessments approved by senior leaders at U.S. Central Command exaggerated the progress of anti-terrorism efforts they ran against IS militants. House GOP leaders formed the task force after lawmakers learned that an unnamed analyst assigned to the command had filed a formal complaint alleging that intelligence about the Islamic State group had been manipulated.

    Pompeo said in a statement this week that no one has "yet been held responsible."

    Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee conducted their own inquiry, which found problems but no evidence that intelligence had been politicized. A spokesman for CENTCOM had declined to comment further because the task force and inspector general inquiries are still proceeding.

    Pompeo has received more than $40,000 from the political action committee of Koch Industries, not including individual contributions from its employees, according to a review of federal campaign finance records. The firm is run by major political donors Charles and David Koch.

    He initially supported Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for the Republican nomination for president, but then promoted Trump's bid for the White House.

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    Jeff Sessions is Attorney General Pick, Says Trump Camp


    Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) stands on stage before the start of the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions has been tapped by president-elect Donald Trump as attorney general during one of three cabinet announcements.

    Sessions, from Alabama, currently sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department and the FBI, according to National Public Radio. Sessions also served as a U.S. attorney in Alabama.

    "The president-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as Alabama's attorney general and U.S. attorney," the Trump transition team said in a statement Thursday, hinting at Session's nomination, The Washington Post reported. "It is no wonder the people of Alabama re-elected him without opposition."

    Sessions, 69, was the first U.S. senator to endorse Trump's campaign and often guided the then Republican presidential nominee on policy, the Post reported.

    The four-term senator, though, has also been accused of racism throughout his career. Sessions was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 after former colleagues testified before a Senate that he joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying he thought they were "okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana," the Post noted.

    "Sessions is an unwavering social conservative and has been a staunch advocate for the death penalty, Second Amendment rights, the Defense of Marriage Act, and religious liberty," the Conservative Review noted.

    "Taken as a whole, Sessions has become the leading statesman in the country against open borders and in defense of American sovereignty, the American worker and taxpayer. He has led every major immigration fight with a relentless supply of data and intellectual firepower, along with floor speeches and media appearances," the Conservative Review continued.

    Sessions still has to be approved by Congress. NPR also reported that Trump plans to name Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor and U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo as CIA director. Pompeo also has to face Congress.

    Flynn is a retired Army major general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012, before being forced out by the Obama administration, according to NBC News.

    Pompeo, a West Point graduate and three-term Congressman from Kansas, was a member of the Select Committee on Benghazi.

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    More on Sessions

    Got the Death Penalty for KKK Head

    Sessions's actual track record certainly doesn't suggest he's a racist. Quite the opposite, in fact. As a U.S. Attorney he filed several cases to desegregate schools in Alabama. And he also prosecuted the head of the state Klan, Henry Francis Hays, for abducting and killing Michael Donald, a black teenager selected at random. Sessions insisted on the death penalty for Hays. When he was later elected the state Attorney General, Sessions followed through and made sure the Hays executed. The successful prosecution of Hays also led to a $7 million civil judgment against the Klan, effectively breaking the back of the KKK in Alabama.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/in-ala...rticle/2005461

    First pro DP AG in eight years.

    More on Hays

    Hays was executed in Alabama's electric chair Yellow Mama after Governor Fob James refused to commute his sentence. He was the first white person executed in Alabama for murder of a black citizen since 1913, and was the only known member of the KKK to be executed in the United States in the 20th century for murder of an African American. Hays was 42 years old when executed

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    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    What kind of impact will a pro death penalty AG have on federal executions?
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Trump names former critic Nikki Haley as UN envoy

    Donald Trump has named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the UN, his team has announced.

    She is the first non-white female cabinet-level official appointed within the Trump administration.

    Mrs Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants and had been a vocal critic of Mr Trump on the campaign trail.

    The 44-year-old has been characterised as a rising star within the Republican party and is the youngest governor in the US.

    Although she eventually voted for Mr Trump, the governor had lamented she was "not a fan" of either him or rival Hillary Clinton.

    Mrs Haley endorsed Florida Senator Marco Rubio during the Republican primaries, later throwing her support behind Senator Ted Cruz - Mr Trump's final rival before he became the party's nominee.

    Born Nimrata "Nikki" Randhawa, Mrs Haley is the first minority and female governor of South Carolina, a deeply conservative state with a long history of racial strife.

    She took a public stand against resettling Syrian refugees in South Carolina and also opposed President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

    Earlier this month, Mrs Haley was elected vice chair of the Republican Governors Association, paving the way to becoming chairman of the group in 2018.

    The Indian-American, who is in her second and final term as governor, was elected in 2010, riding the wave of the Republican Tea Party with the support of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

    Before becoming the state's chief executive, she served six years as a member of the state's House of Representatives.

    Mrs Haley, who was raised in a Sikh household and now identifies herself as a Christian, is married to Army National Guard Capt Michael Haley and has two children.

    What does the job involve?

    The job of the "permanent representative" to the UN is to represent US interests. As a member of the cabinet the ambassador must inform the president of UN activities and make recommendations for state actions.

    According to the US UN Mission website, ambassadors also work to "defend universal values and address pressing global challenges to global peace, security, and prosperity".

    The ambassador has the responsibility of a role on the UN Security Council, with a permanent veto power. The council has five permanent members; Russia, China, France, the US and the UK and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms.

    After being appointed by the president, the ambassador must be approved by the Senate.

    Who is currently in the post?

    Irish-born Samantha Power is the current UN ambassador and has held the post since 2013. The ex-White House adviser is a Harvard academic, a former war correspondent and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

    As a journalist she reported from places like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan and Zimbabwe and tried to get officials to pay attention to human rights issues.

    President Barack Obama announced her nomination by describing her as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy"

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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Donald Trump picks billionaire Betsy DeVos to be education secretary

    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped billionaire Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the U.S. Education Department, a post she has accepted.

    DeVos, a Michigan native and former chair of the state's Republican Party, met with Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Saturday and discussed "the Common Core mission, and setting higher national standards and promoting the growth of school choice across the nation," according to a Trump transition team statement.

    DeVos currently serves as chairman of the American Federation for Children, a non-profit organization with the mission of improving the U.S.'s K-12 education "by advancing systemic and sustainable public policy that empowers parents, particularly those in low-income families, to choose the education they determine is best for their children."

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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Ben Carson Accepts HUD Secretary Post, Spokesman Says

    President-elect Donald Trump has selected former GOP presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson as the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a spokesman for Mr. Carson said.

    The spokesman, Armstrong Williams, said Mr. Carson was offered the HUD secretary post and has accepted it.

    Mr. Carson suggested in a social-media post earlier Wednesday that he would join the Trump administration, reversing his stance last week that he didn’t want to work in government.

    Mr. Carson wrote on his Facebook page that “After serious discussions with the Trump transition team, I feel that I can make a significant contribution particularly to making our inner cities great for everyone.” He added: “An announcement is forthcoming about my role in helping to make America great again.”

    Mr. Williams had said Tuesday evening that Mr. Trump had asked Dr. Carson to consider running the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He had also been considered as a candidate to run the Department of Health and Human Services, but last week Mr. Carson signaled he didn't want to lead a federal agency.

    Mr. Carson appeared to have had a change of heart, though, writing on Wednesday that “We have much work to do in strengthening every aspect of our nation and ensuring that both our physical infrastructure and our spiritual infrastructure is solid.”

    Aside from his presidential run, Mr. Carson doesn’t have much political experience. Still, he won over many conservative voters with his positive, even-mannered style. He was born and raised in Detroit, and, after he dropped out of the presidential race, he appeared to develop a friendship with Mr. Trump.

    Mr. Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he was “seriously considering” Mr. Carson for the HUD post, adding that “he’s a greatly talented person who loves people!”

    HUD, with a budget of $47.9 billion and some 8,400 employees, has played a critical role in stabilizing the housing market after last decade’s boom and bust. Through the Federal Housing Administration, which is part of HUD, the federal government currently insures one in every six new home-purchase mortgages. HUD also oversees funding for about 1.2 million low-income households in public-housing units managed by some 3,300 local housing agencies.

    Under the Obama administration, the department has beefed up enforcement of fair-housing regulations to combat zoning policies that result in segregation, threatening the loss of millions of dollars in federal funding to municipalities that don’t comply. This year’s Republican platform took aim at those policies, which it said “threatens to undermine zoning laws in order to socially engineer every community in the country.”

    In the Obama administration, the department was headed by Shaun Donovan, who previously served as New York City’s housing commissioner, and Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio.

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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Trump Picks Elaine Chao for Transportation Secretary

    WASHINGTON — She is a woman and an immigrant, a fixture of the Republican establishment for two decades. She is a savvy and professional practitioner of the capital’s inside game.

    And now she is going to work for President-elect Donald J. Trump.

    Mr. Trump named Elaine L. Chao on Tuesday as his choice to be the next secretary of transportation, elevating someone whose background and experience are in many respects completely at odds with the brash and disruptive tenor of his anti-Washington campaign.

    But her selection also signaled Mr. Trump’s understanding of the need to surround himself with people who can help him accomplish the most ambitious parts of his agenda, even if they come from the political establishment he has so often scorned.

    His transportation secretary is likely to be one of the more essential players. Mr. Trump, a real estate magnate, has said that infrastructure redevelopment will be a priority of his first 100 days in office. And Ms. Chao has experience — politically and personally — in navigating the competing centers of power in the capital. She is married to Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader.

    This will be her second time serving in a White House cabinet if she is confirmed. As secretary of labor under President George W. Bush, she was the only official in his administration to serve all eight years.

    Before that, she worked in various departments across the federal government. She was a White House fellow under President Ronald Reagan and the director of the Peace Corps under President George Bush, who also named her deputy transportation secretary.

    “That says something,” said Richard F. Hohlt, a veteran Republican consultant and friend of Ms. Chao’s. “She knows how to work a bureaucracy, and she knows how to last.”

    Her résumé speaks to the ease with which she runs in powerful circles in Washington and beyond. She has worked for Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as well as the conservative Heritage Foundation. She was also a frequent commentator on Fox News, a role that several of Mr. Trump’s other cabinet picks and candidates share, like K. T. McFarland, whom he named as his deputy national security adviser.

    That is not her only connection to the world of Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation includes Fox. She sits on the company’s board of directors.

    She adds some diversity to a cabinet that is so far heavily older, white and male. Ms. Chao, 63, was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States with her family when she was 8.

    While the public aspects of her life are well known, Ms. Chao has also played an integral, behind-the-scenes role in her husband’s political career, most recently as he fought off efforts to unseat him in 2014. Described by friends and colleagues as unrelenting, she occasionally stepped out into the public eye to take on her husband’s antagonists.

    Sometimes they also came for her, and she was happy to take them on as well. After a liberal Kentucky group suggested in 2013 that Ms. Chao was somehow connected to the flight of American jobs to China — a jab evidently intended to portray Mr. McConnell as too cozy with American business interests — she starred in a commercial and rushed to his defense. “Far-left special interests are also attacking my ethnicity, even attacking Mitch’s patriotism, because he’s married to me,” she said. “That’s how low some people will stoop.”

    Mr. Trump was impressed by her energy and drive, a senior transition official said, speaking anonymously to reveal the private interactions between Ms. Chao and the president-elect. He also admired her no-nonsense attitude, this official said.

    But now that she is in line for a prominent position in Mr. Trump’s cabinet, it is her own ties to business that are likely to come under scrutiny. As labor secretary, she faced criticism that her department favored business and was lax on enforcement and worker safety.

    At the time, she dismissed those concerns as “partisan.”

    Her time out of government service is likely to be the biggest area of focus for labor and other left-leaning interests, though her confirmation in the Senate does not appear to be in any doubt. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, praised her government service on Tuesday, and said he hoped to work collaboratively with her and Mr. Trump on an infrastructure plan, which would have to make it through the Senate her husband leads.

    “I hope Secretary Chao shares that ambitious goal and is willing to work with Democrats,” Mr. Schumer said.

    A particular area of interest for her critics will be her position on the board of Wells Fargo, which has been tainted by revelations that its managers tolerated and even encouraged its employees to sign customers up for services they did not want.

    But other private-sector work could prove to be an asset. She was a banker for Citicorp and helped close transactions that involved transportation financing.

    The financing issue she will confront now is altogether different, however. Despite the consensus that the nation’s infrastructure is in dire need of an overhaul, Congress and the White House have been unable to agree on how to pay for it.

    “That’s where the creative thinking takes place,” said Ray LaHood, who served as transportation secretary under President Obama. He also worked with Ms. Chao when he served in Congress and she was labor secretary. Given her understanding of the complexities of the private sector and the dysfunction of Washington, Mr. LaHood added, Ms. Chao was a strong candidate.

    “I’m as optimistic as I’ve been in a long time about the potential she brings to finally get something done on infrastructure,” he said.

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    Donald Trump Picks Rep. Tom Price to Lead Department of Health and Human Services

    President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate Georgia Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

    The Cabinet-level pick, which requires Senate confirmation, inserts one of Obamacare's most outspoken critics into the key position to dismantle it and help Republicans implement their own blueprint for health care reform.

    "Chairman Price, a renowned physician, has earned a reputation for being a tireless problem solver and the go-to expert on healthcare policy, making him the ideal choice to serve in this capacity," Trump said in a statement. "He is exceptionally qualified to shepherd our commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare and bring affordable and accessible healthcare to every American."

    Price, an orthopedic surgeon and the House point person for crafting legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act, would be particularly well-suited for the role. He's also chairman of the House Budget Committee, is known as a policy wonk and would add another well-known Capitol Hill name to Trump's budding cabinet, along with Rep. Mike Pompeo and Sen. Jeff Sessions, whom were named as CIA Director and Attorney General, respectively.

    Price joined Trump at his campaign speech on health care reform earlier this month, and issued a statement praising Trump's commitment to "fully repealing this failed law."

    "On November 8th, I'll join the people of Georgia in supporting Donald Trump for president," he said at the time. "He has committed to fully repealing this failed law and as the author of legislation that does just that, I look forward to working with the Trump Administration to make healthcare more affordable and accessible,"

    Trump made repealing and replacing Obamacare one of his major campaign promises and has said post-election it remains a top priority when he takes office, but he seems to have moved somewhat away from a full repeal of Obamacare in the weeks since the election.

    After speaking with President Obama, Trump said he would favor keeping some parts of the law, including the plank barring insurers from denying coverage based on preexisting conditions and the provision of the law that allows children to stay on their parents' health plans until the age of 26.

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