November 11, 2024 - US election news

In a sign of Elon Musk’s growing influence with Donald Trump and inside Mar-a-Lago, Republican lawmakers have been reaching out to the billionaire X owner hoping to boost their standing with the president-elect.

Some lawmakers have been courting Musk on the Senate GOP leadership election and other issues important to Trump, sources familiar with the conversation tell CNN.

Musk has also been making calls of his own, ringing up Trump allies and lawmakers.

It’s a sign of the shifting and fast-moving dynamic that GOP lawmakers are contending with, especially just days ahead of the Senate Republicans’ leadership election scheduled on Wednesday. That election will take place in private and submitted via a secret ballot, meaning that senators can vote anonymously.

Musk has already made clear his preference for Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott in the leadership race, but that has not stopped other senators from weighing in with him.

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked split-ticket voters on Instagram Sunday to explain why they support both her, or another Democrat, and President-elect Donald Trump.

The answers — some of which Ocasio-Cortez posted — mostly pointed to what users described as an overlapping political style, particularly their blunt attacks on the political establishment.

“You are focused on the real issues people care about,” one said. “Similar to Trump populism in some ways.” “I feel like Trump and you are real,” said another.

Other users pointed to the Biden Administration’s policy in Israel and Gaza and a desire for change — of any kind — at the top of the ticket, writing, “Wanted change so I went with trump and blue for the rest of the ballot to put some brakes” on him.

The posts were the latest entries into Democrats’ post-election reckoning. Trump won all seven battleground states on his way to more than 300 electoral votes. He picked up ground nearly everywhere, including Ocasio-Cortez’s home state of New York, though congressional Democrats still managed to blunt the red wave.

Not everyone enjoyed the exercise. One reply to her question underscored the Democratic dread hanging over what figures to be a long-term political reclamation project.

“The responses you got make me want to barf,” the user said.

Ocasio-Cortez replied with a cry-laughing emoji, saying, “Sometimes you gotta dig in and see it to understand and adapt! Even if it makes you want to barf.”

After her story went viral, she posted a few more questions, including about issues like the economy, Gaza, the border, and “race and gender.” She also asked where Trump voters or Trump-Democratic “split-voters” got their news and media, including podcasts, during the election.

“Asking where you got your news from is not stating – or alleging disinformation,” Ocasio-Cortez added, repeatedly saying she was not “judging” respondents.

Vice President-elect JD Vance gave Stephen Miller a message of congratulations after CNN reported Donald Trump is expected to select him as White House deputy chief of staff for policy.

“This is another fantastic pick by the president. Congrats @StephenM!” Vance posted on X.

While Trump hasn’t officially announced the news yet, CNN reported that Trump is expected to in the coming days.

More on Miller’s background: Previously serving as a senior adviser to Trump during his first administration, Miller has been a leading advocate for more restrictive immigration policy and is expected to take on an expanded role in the president-elect’s second term.

Miller is also a lead architect of Trump’s plans for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. He has said that a second Trump administration would seek a tenfold increase in the number of deportations — to more than one million per year.

Sexist and abusive attacks on women, like “your body, my choice” and “get back to the kitchen,” have surged across social media since Donald Trump’s reelection, according to an analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

An X post from White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes last Tuesday night saying, “Your body, my choice. Forever,” has been viewed more than 90 million times and reposted 35 million times. Between Thursday and Friday, the ISD recorded a 4,600% increase in mentions of the phrase on X. And a number of women on TikTok posted videos saying their comments had been filled with users posting the phrase.

“Nick Fuentes” was still trending on X and TikTok on Monday. The phrase “we own your body” was also trending on TikTok, although many of the videos featured women pushing back on the trend.

“Your body, my choice” is an apparent subversion the phrase “my body, my choice,” which was used by women as a rallying cry in support of reproductive rights.

The rise in harassment signals that far-right online trolls and extremists feel emboldened by the outcome of an election that many had viewed as a referendum on women’s reproductive rights. On the campaign trail, Trump himself came under fire for comments about women, including that he would protect women whether “they like it or not.” Vice President-elect JD Vance also took heat for comments about women, including deriding “childless cat ladies” and calling Vice President Kamala Harris “trash.”

Many of those trolls are part of the so-called “manosphere,” which the ISD describes as online “misogynistic communities that vary from anti-feminism to more explicit, violent rhetoric towards women.”

President-elect Donald Trump marked Veterans Day with a post on his Truth Social platform, featuring a photo of him saluting, accompanied by the message, “Happy Veterans Day 2024.”

Meanwhile, Melania Trump paid tribute to veterans in a statement on X, expressing respect and appreciation for veterans while acknowledging their courage, sacrifice, and commitment to serving the country.

“We stand united in gratitude,” the former and soon-to-be first lady highlighted.

Vice President-elect JD Vance also delivered a message of gratitude for the nation’s veterans on Monday.

“Thank you to all the veterans out there for putting on this country’s uniform. In a country blessed with incredible natural resources, perhaps the most valuable resource we have is that millions of people are willing to serve in uniform. We are grateful to you!” he posted on X.

Vance is a Marine Corps veteran.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to completely remake the US government and wield new power as president.

The ambitious promises, if enacted, would transform society. Some of his most-repeated promises on the campaign trail include:

Now Americans will find out what was hyperbole and what was real — what is achievable and what he will be able to push through by himself, with help from Congress and without interference by the courts.

His pledge to end Russia’s war on Ukraine “in 24 hours,” for example, seems overwrought, to say the least. His pledge for a mass deportation effort, on the other hand, is very serious. It seems to be backed up by some clear planning but there’s a lack of public details.

On mass deportations: Trump’s most aggressive promise is the rounding up and deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants. Expect Trump to come into office with a series of executive orders already written to reinstate border policies unwound by the Biden administration. Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller, who Trump is expected to announce as as deputy chief of staff for policy, said on Fox News to expect deportations to begin the moment Trump is again president on January 20, 2025.

Read the full analysis of Trump’s plans for his second administration.

President Joe Biden salutes during the National Veterans Day Observance in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday, November 11.

President Joe Biden called for unity and to “bind the nations wounds” as he delivered remarks commemorating Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery less than one week after a divisive presidential election and ahead of his meeting with president-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday.

“We have many obligations, but only one truly sacred obligation, sacred. To prepare those we send into harm’s way and to care for them and their families when they return home and when they don’t. It’s an obligation, not based on party or politics, but our promise that unites us all today as we strive on to finish the work of our moment to bind the nation’s wounds once again, we commit, recommit to this sacred vow,” Biden said after quoting former President Abraham Lincoln.

During his remarks, Biden also spoke about the work his administration has done to help veterans and the sacrifice they have made to protect Americans over generations. He reflected on his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, which resulted in a chaotic operation that led to permanent political damage at the beginning of his presidency.

President Biden also took time to remember his late son Beau Biden, and was wearing a tie that features the logo of the Beau Biden Foundation, the nonprofit set up in Beau’s memory.

Earlier in the program, Vice President Kamala Harris was recognized by Karen Durham-Aguilera, who is the executive director of the Army National Military Cemeteries and the Office of Army Cemeteries, as she named notable attendees.

The vice president received significant applause from those in the audience and placed her hand on her chest in an apparent sign of gratitude.

Sen. Eric Schmitt speaks to reporters in Atlanta, in June.

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, who had been at the top of Donald Trump’s list for attorney general, has withdrawn his name from consideration.

“I ran for the U.S. Senate to represent the people of the Show Me State and I’m just getting started,” Schmitt said on X, confirming he had informed the President-elect that he wanted to remain in the Senate. “The American people have given President @realDonaldTrump a mandate.

Some background: Schmitt, who served as Missouri’s attorney general when the state targeted big tech companies over alleged censorship of conservatives, is a close ally of Trump’s. He helped the former president prepare for his debates against Biden and Harris, spoke at the Republican National Convention, and was at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday for Election night.

Trump views his attorney general as the most important role in his administration. He has said both privately and publicly that he believes the Justice Department should not operate as independently as it has traditionally, and instead wants to work closely with his attorney general to carry out his legal aims. Trump has also said he believes he is justified to seek retribution against, and potentially prosecute, his political enemies.

After Trump left the White House is 2021, he often remarked that his biggest regret while in office was who he selected to serve as his attorney general, pointing specifically to his former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and William Barr.

Whomever Trump ultimately chooses to fill the role will be someone the President-elect trusts enormously and believes will be loyal to him, the sources said.

Keep reading to learn about other names being considered for attorney general here.

John Podesta speaks to the media on the opening day of the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference on November 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Biden administration is racing to send climate and environment funds from some of its major laws to states, and buttoning up last-minute regulations aimed at protecting the planet, a top climate official said on Monday.

Speaking to reporters at Baku on Monday, the first official day at COP29, Podesta said the Biden administration is “fully committed” to obligating outstanding funding under Biden’s climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act.

As CNN recently reported, about $103 billion in IRA funding — 92% of the law’s total — has been announced as of late October. That money will fund everything from clean energy rebates to helping coastal communities prepare for rising seas and slashing pollution from oil and gas operations.

Since Donald Trump was reelected, the Biden administration has already announced actions including limiting oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and strengthening protections for the Greater Sage Grouse — a bird whose habitat crosses energy-rich lands in the West. Trump’s first administration rolled back protections for the species to open more public land for drilling and mining.

More on Biden’s to-do list: In its final months, the Biden administration has some major things left on its to-do list. The Energy Department still must finish a federal review to determine whether US exports of liquified natural gas are “consistent with the public interest.” The review, announced in January, effectively paused the federal approval of pending new LNG projects to the ire of the fossil fuel industry. Trump has promised to quickly overturn the LNG pause when he returns to office.

The Environmental Protection Agency also has yet to finalize California’s federal waiver to set its own emissions standards. Podesta appeared to nod to that on Monday, saying “we’re working with (California) to make sure that we’re listening to their needs about what they’re trying to get done.”

President Joe Biden lays a wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day on November 11 in Arlington, Virginia.

Vice President Kamala Harris made her first appearance Monday morning since delivering her concession speech last Wednesday, participating in a wreath laying ceremony for Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery.

The vice president laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris walks to attend a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day in Arlington, Virginia, on November 11.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day in Arlington, Virginia, on November 11.

Stephen Miller speaks during a Trump campaign rally at the Grand Sierra Resort on October 11 in Reno, Nevada.

In the coming days, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to announce that Stephen Miller, his top immigration adviser, will serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN.

Miller, who served as a senior adviser to Trump during his first administration and has been a leading advocate for more restrictive immigration policy, is expected to take on an expanded role in the president-elect’s second term.

Miller is also a lead architect of Trump’s plans for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. He has said that a second Trump administration would seek a tenfold increase in the number of deportations — to more than one million per year.

“President-elect Trump will begin making decisions on who will serve in his second Administration soon. Those decisions will be announced when they are made,” Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told CNN.

Former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan speaks during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17.

Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for “border czar,” detailed on Monday some of his plans to handle illegal immigration.

“Worksite operations have to happen,” Homan said on “Fox and Friends.” “Where do we find most victims of sex trafficking and forced labor trafficking? At work sites. And the Biden administration shut down work sites … On one point, they say we care about sex trafficking and human trafficking, then they shut down work site enforcement, which is one of the main areas we find the victims of this.”

Homan defended pushback against deportations, emphasizing the legal recourse that people can take in immigration court.

Homan expressed disdain toward sanctuary cities, which are jurisdictions that have policies in place designed to limit cooperation with or involvement in federal immigration enforcement actions. He said that he hopes local police in these cities will cooperate with the incoming administration but noted Trump’s history of using the Department of Justice to sue these cities.

“Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals,” Homan said.

Under the first Trump administration, Homan served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Asylum seekers rush to be processed by border patrol agents at an improvised camp near the US-Mexico border in eastern Jacumba, California, on February 2.

Immigrants to the US, their employers and groups that work with them are taking action ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, in which he has promised to deport millions of people.

Some fear how the new administration could impact their families, while others are hopeful the plans — if they materialize — will make things better.

Trump allies are discussing deportation and detention options, with tackling the US-Mexico border seen as a priority from Day 1. And removing undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes is likely to be an early focus, a source familiar with the team’s preliminary plans told CNN.

But advocates fear deportation plans will soon reach deeper into American communities, targeting people who they say have a right to live there.

The League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States, is securing money and lawyers to fight what it is already calling potential “vicious, malevolent, cruel and ruthless” immigration policies.

A lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, meanwhile, says its planning for legal challenges is already well advanced.

Read more about how communities are preparing for Trump’s promised policies.

Elise Stefanik waves during a rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York, on October 27.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik to be UN ambassador, but the New York Representative was not always one of his biggest supporters.

Initially styled as an “independent voice,” who evinced a moderate persona, Stefanik won praise from former House Speaker Paul Ryan, an establishment hero and longtime ally, who wrote in Time Magazine that Stefanik was a “builder – no easy feat in an age when so much of politics is about tearing people down.”

But over the past few years, as she saw Trump’s popularity rise in her state, she got on board.

Her aggressive performance during his 2019 impeachment hearings made her a “Republican star,” as Trump himself said at the time. And again she stepped up for Trump after his 2020 defeat, when she objected to certifying President Joe Biden’s win in the House and promoted Trump’s false claims about election fraud.

As some Republicans agonized over the GOP’s performance in the 2022 midterms, Stefanik tripled down.

Shortly after Election Day, Stefanik, a fourth-ranking House Republican and a top GOP fundraiser, endorsed Trump’s reelection bid – before he formally announced it himself – and called on her party to “to unite around the most popular Republican in America.”

As Trump sought the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, she was among a handful of potential running mates, a role for which she openly jockeyed. She also told CNN earlier this year that she’s “proud to be a top surrogate” and “would proudly serve in a future Trump administration.”

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins contributed reporting to this post.

People shop at a grocery store on August 14, 2024 in Rosemead, California.

President-elect Donald Trump has made tougher immigration enforcement a key campaign promise in each of his White House bids. If he follows through on his pledge for mass deportations and tighter immigration policies, it could create a financial burden for many Americans.

That’s because immigrants – including people who are in America illegally – support the job market, keep inflation in check and add to the federal coffers. That contributes to the overall US economy: If current immigration levels are sustained, the country’s real gross domestic product (GDP) could increase by 0.2 percentage points each year over the next decade, leaving it 2% higher in 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s outlook report for the next decade. By contrast, that projected growth would take a hit if Trump were able to enact his mass deportation plans.

An estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants reside in the United States, but Trump’s focus has mostly been on deporting immigrants with criminal records. Goldman Sachs reported in June that it estimates about 1.2 million unauthorized immigrants, or 8% of that population, have criminal convictions.

Here are a few ways Americans would be impacted financially if Trump follows through on his mass deportation plan:

• Higher prices: Deporting millions of undocumented workers would mean that businesses will need to replace those laborers. With historically low unemployment, finding people willing to work for low pay could be difficult, and companies may need to advertise higher wages to attract workers to replace deported laborers.

• Jobs growth will slow: If huge populations of migrants are deported — or at the very least population growth slows as a result of tighter immigration policies — there will be less consumption of goods, which could hurt the labor market.

• Lower pay: Even as some people who fill the jobs left by deported laborers could get higher pay than the people they replace, in aggregate, deportations can lower paychecks for US-born workers.

Read more details about the impacts Trump’s mass deportation would have on the economy alone here.

Elise Stefanik, speaks during a rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, New York, on October 27.

President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik to the role of UN ambassador to the United Nations in a statement to CNN.

The New York congresswoman, the fourth-ranking House Republican, has been a strong ally of the president-elect and a major fundraiser for the GOP.

CNN’s Kaitlin Collins contributed reporting.

A voter enters the Church of Heavenly Rest in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, on November 5.

In the weeks after Democrats lost their House majority in 2022, party leaders in New York – the epicenter of the implosion – jockeyed hard to deflect blame.

If only they had fought so ferociously before Election Day, critics joked.

This year, that same state party is being cast in a different role – the lead in a complicated but largely successful story that ends with New York’s perennially blundering Democratic operation picking off Republican incumbents in the US House and helping to depress GOP gains in what could be a Washington trifecta come January.

CNN has yet to project the House majority, but New York Democrats have at the very least played a critical role in keeping the GOP’s House margins narrow so far, in what turned out to be disastrous year for the party around the country. Donald Trump is, once again, the president-elect, and Republicans have flipped the Senate.

But even that has been overshadowed by the country’s broader shift toward Trump and the emergence of his MAGA movement as the kind of multicultural, working-class coalition Democrats pine for.

New York fared about the same as other traditionally deep-blue states at the top of the ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris easily outpaced Trump, winning by about 12 points, but her final margin of victory was dramatically lower than Joe Biden’s 23 points only four years ago, which was consistent with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 showing.

Read more about why Trump was able to surge in New York, while House Democrats performed well in the state here.

While Republicans have clinched the White House and flipped the Senate, unified GOP control of the federal government remains in question, as votes in House races are still being counted.

There are 16 House races that have not yet been projected, and we still do not know for certain who will control the lower chamber of Congress. Republicans are four seats away from holding on to the majority, while Democrats are 13 seats away from taking the chamber.

Republicans will win the US Senate majority, a victory for the party that has been locked out of the majority in the chamber since 2021. With two races still to be declared — Arizona and Pennsylvania — Republicans will have at least 52 seats in the chamber.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Memorial Hall at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania , on November 4.

Vice President Kamala Harris will make her first appearance since delivering her concession speech last Wednesday when she attends Veterans Day events at Arlington National Cemetery Monday morning.

She is not scheduled to speak at the events, but the vice president will join the President Joe Biden to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on its centennial anniversary, according to her schedule. The vice president, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and First Lady Jill Biden will then be on hand as the president delivers remarks at the National Veterans Day Observance at the Memorial Amphitheater.

Ahead of the trip to Arlington National Cemetery, the president and first lady will host a Veterans Day breakfast at the White House, welcoming families, caregivers, survivors, and advocates who work on behalf of veterans.

Biden bolsters veteran support: The White House this morning announced the Biden administration has delivered more benefits and health care to veterans at a faster rate than before. The Biden administration also announced it is “expanding the types of cancers considered presumptive for VA disability benefits,” another step to aid veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, and it is marking that veteran homelessness has dropped to its lowest point with a 7.5% reduction in the last year and 55.6% reduction since 2010.

Biden and Harris’ visit to Arlington National Cemetery comes two months after a visit by the now President-elect Donald Trump stirred controversy. The US Army issued a stark rebuke of Trump’s campaign over an incident where an Arlington employee was reportedly pushed by a member of Trump’s team during a visit to the hallowed grounds. A military law enforcement investigation into the incident was still ongoing as of late October.

At the time, Harris criticized Trump over the incident, saying it demonstrates he “is unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself.”

The White House is racing to dole out remaining funds appropriated from key legislation President Joe Biden signed before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in 10 weeks.

That includes:

The implementation efforts reflect one slice of how the Biden administration is working to shore up key initiatives as the second Trump presidency approaches.

After he bowed out of the 2024 race in July, Biden tasked his team with ramping up the implementation of key legislation, including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act; and the health care and climate law known as the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed along party lines.

That directive has taken on heightened significance since voters decided to send Trump back to the White House next year, leaving Democrats with a narrow window to finish their work.

Read more about what the White House is doing before Trump takes office.

US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has denied that US President-elect Donald Trump had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin, contradicting a report in the Washington Post about a phone call between the two world leaders last week.

Peskov was commenting on the Washington Post report citing anonymous sources as saying Trump discussed the war in Ukraine with Putin on Thursday in the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the election.

When asked directly if any conversation had taken place between Trump and Putin recently, Peskov stated:

A Trump spokesperson declined to directly comment on the contents of the reported call and did not directly say whether the conversation had happened.

“We do not comment on private calls between President Trump and other world leaders,” Steven Cheung said Sunday.

President elect Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at the PPG Paints Arena on November 4, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

President-elect Donald Trump is already flexing raw power, showing he may try to subvert Washington’s checks and balances and leaving foreign leaders scrambling to come to terms with his victory.

Early signs from Mar-a-Lago suggest that when he moves back into the White House in January, bolstered by a thumping win and a democratic mandate, he will act with maximum force.

Trump has already issued orders on social media to Senate Republicans running in this week’s majority leader election to endorse recess appointments for his Cabinet nominees — and all three candidates quickly signaled they’re open to the idea. He’s showing he plans to rule a GOP monopoly on power — if Republicans win control of the House, which CNN has not yet projected — with unchallenged authority. He sees Congress as a rubber stamp rather than a separate, co-equal branch of government.

Longer-term implications of Trump’s triumph are sinking in. Speculation about future Supreme Court positions and potential retirements is highlighting the next president’s potential to extend the dominance of the ultra-conservative majority he built into the middle of the century.

Federal workers are now dreading an expected purge of career bureaucrats by Trump allies keen to install political appointees who will not hesitate to carry out orders that could shred the regulatory state and central government authority.

And there are discussions in the Pentagon about how the military would respond to any order to deploy against Americans, following Trump’s warnings as a candidate that he could shatter taboos on the use of forces on US soil.

Read how Trump’s determination to project peerless authority is playing out.

America’s allies and foes alike have spent the past five days speculating about what Donald Trump’s re-election will mean for their economies, security and the world’s grinding wars.

Similar anxieties are brewing among diplomats gathering in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, today for the COP29 climate talks. Trump has vowed to again pull the United States from the Paris Agreement, which binds nearly all the world’s countries to dramatically slash carbon pollution. Instead, he is poised to revive his “drill baby, drill” agenda to cash in on more American oil and gas.

A U-turn on US climate policy could be disastrous for the planet, as it raises the risk of emulation. When America does something on the world stage, at least some countries tend to follow.

Ahead of Trump’s inauguration, negotiators will ramp down their expectations in terms of what’s possible at the talks, he said.

The sheer amount of extra carbon pollution from an America unbound by any climate agreement is worrying enough. America is the second-biggest polluter of planet-heating carbon and it produces more oil than any other nation.

But the real sting is, that as the world’s biggest economy, the US has more power than any other country to fund climate change action in the developing world. Even if it stays in the Paris Agreement, an “America First” Trump administration is unlikely to be more generous with grants and loans for other countries’ green transition.

Read more about how Trump’s win could change global climate policy.

Tom Homan delivers the keynote speech at the Columbiana County Lincoln Day Dinner in Salem, Ohio on March 15.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in his last administration, will be in charge of the nation’s borders.

The president-elect added that there’s “nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders” and that Homan “will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.”

Some background: The former acting ICE director was a contributor to Project 2025, the sweeping conservative blueprint for the next Republican president, which Trump distanced himself from during his campaign.

Immigration was a cornerstone of Trump’s 2024 campaign, and he repeatedly vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

In a recent interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Homan argued that “families could be deported together” when asked about Trump’s pledge to carry about mass deportations immediately upon entering office. He also argued that that effort would be targeted, though exact plans for how it would be carried out — and how much it would cost — remain to be seen.

US President-elect Donald Trump is not “demonizing” Vladimir Putin because he wants to reach a deal with the Russian president, according to a former US ambassador to NATO.

“He has also not criticized Vladimir Putin, he’s not said that this is a Russian aggression that needs to stop,” Kurt Volker told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Sunday.

Volker also pointed out Trump had reversed the Obama administration’s policy of only supplying non-lethal aid.

Some background: Volker served as US special envoy for Ukraine in the Trump administration from 2017-2019, until he resigned after the release of a whistleblower report alleging a cover-up by the White House of a call between the president and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.