The latest on Trump’s presidential transition

American voters have decided to rehire Donald Trump as president of the United States.

But he won’t take office until January 20, 2025, and there are multiple things that will happen between now and then. Throughout November, December and January, there will be a transition between the outgoing administration of President Joe Biden and the incoming Trump administration.

Here’s what to expect between now and Inauguration Day:

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks with reporters after meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson in Washington, DC, in May.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says so-called sanctuary cities are at risk of losing government funding as Washington comes under unified Republican control.

Outlining her plans for a new House subcommittee on government efficiency, Greene threatened to cut funding for cities and states that limit or prohibit local government cooperation with immigration enforcement.

“We’re coming after their money, and they don’t deserve it,” she told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

More background: Greene is set to lead the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency. It will work with the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

“The federal government has been the worst abusers of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars and the American people’s trust,” Greene said Sunday.

The subcommittee will examine government programs and bring in federal agency leaders to explain why they deserve funding, the GOP lawmaker said.

Greene highlighted NPR, federal grant programs and the Pentagon as areas likely to be targeted by the new subcommittee.

Scott Bessent speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington DC in July.

Business leaders say they are relieved ­President-elect Donald Trump made a safe choice to lead the Department of Treasury after more unconventional selections to other Cabinet posts.

Hedge fund executive Scott Bessent survived an internal squabble over the role of Treasury secretary, a key position that will face almost immediate deadlines and pressures.

Bessent’s pedigree as a global investor who has worked with legendary money managers, and his history of supporting both Republicans and Democrats, have eased the worries of business leaders — and financial markets.

Dow futures rose by more than 300 points Monday morning, with futures on the S&P and Nasdaq 100 moving 0.5% higher. Treasury yields ticked down and the dollar fell.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, one of the most powerful executives on Wall Street, is a fan, too. Dimon thinks very highly of Bessent and believes he’s an excellent choice, a source close to Dimon told CNN on Sunday.

Bessent, 62, has worked with some of the most renowned investors in the world, including Jim Rogers, Jim Chanos, Stanley Druckenmiller and George Soros.

The Treasury secretary role is one of the most crucial hires of any administration, but especially this one given Trump’s focus on the economy and voters’ deep frustration with the cost of living.

Bessent will act as Trump’s quarterback, executing his economic agenda. And for this key position, Trump opted to go with a pick that is not expected to draw a contentious confirmation battle.

Sonnenfeld, known as “the CEO Whisperer” for his rolodex of business contacts, said the hope of Corporate America is that Bessent can moderate some of Trump’s more aggressive campaign promises that mainstream economists fear will reignite inflation.

That includes mass deportations that threaten to starve key industries of workers, potentially influencing Federal Reserve policy and across-the-board tariffs on all $3 trillion of US exports.

Read more about how business leaders are reacting to Trump’s Treasury secretary pick.

We asked CNN readers for their questions about the incoming second Trump administration.

Here’s what one reader is wondering about the future of Social Security:

CNN’s Tami Luhby covers Social Security and other social safety net programs. This is her response:

Trump has promised to protect Social Security and not raise the retirement age or make other cuts. However, if nothing is done, the entitlement program’s combined trust funds will run dry in 2035, according to Social Security’s trustees. After that, the program will only be able to pay 83% of benefits owed.

But Trump’s campaign promises, including eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits, tips and overtime, could drain critical tax revenue from the trust funds, speeding up their exhaustion by three years, a government watchdog found.

For more, read Luhby’s story on how a second Trump term could affect Social Security benefits.

President-elect Donald Trump is putting the finishing touches on his Cabinet selections and picks for other key roles in the incoming administration.

Over the weekend, he filled one of the final remaining openings, tapping former policy adviser Brooke Rollins as agriculture secretary. Rollins is the CEO of the America First Policy Institute, a group with close ties to Trump’s transition team, and has been a vocal supporter of the president-elect.

What’s next: Most of Trump’s selections are subject to Senate approval, a process that still needs to play out, with high-profile hearings expected on Capitol Hill.

GOP lawmakers are bracing for how they’ll navigate the next slew of unorthodox Trump picks.

They have warned the president-elect’s choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, who faces controversy over his past comments and history, that the confirmation process is a long and invasive one. Trump’s chosen spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, is also facing particular scrutiny.

Here is the full list of Trump selections:

Donald Trump’s Senate allies are racing to defend Tulsi Gabbard, his pick to lead US intelligence services, in what could become the next test of the president-elect’s bid to install provocative nominees — and of any Republican appetite to stop him.

Gabbard and another contentious Trump pick — Pete Hegseth, who has been tapped to lead the Defense Department — came under sharpened scrutiny Sunday as the spotlight shifted from Matt Gaetz, Trump’s toppled choice to be attorney general.

Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth warned of Gabbard:

The Illinois senator brought up Gabbard’s visit to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2017 and policy positions where she’s appeared to mirror Russian propaganda talking points.

But Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, speaking to Dana Bash on the same show, said such claims were “ridiculous” and “outright dangerous” and called for Duckworth to retract them.

The extraordinary public debate over whether a president-elect’s pick to oversee US intelligence agencies is a compromised asset is a taste of the massive upheaval that likely awaits next year in his second term.

Read the full analysis.

People hold signs during a news conference by Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Las Vegas.

Despite his campaign promises to leave the issue to the states, President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will shape the national landscape around abortion and reproductive health.

Trump leaned into the abortion issue in the 2016 campaign and made good on his promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, which protected the right to an abortion nationwide. However, the court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization prompted a political backlash that Trump has tried to sidestep, while opening new legal quandaries that his second administration will have no choice but to navigate.

Chief among them are two cases involving the federal government that have both already been up to the Supreme Court once and could well land before the justices again during Trump’s second term. One of them is a challenge to federal regulations that have made abortion pills easier to obtain. The second deals with whether an emergency room patient is entitled to an abortion — even in states that ban the procedure — if a pregnancy complication is putting her health in danger.

Trump will also face calls from anti-abortion activists to reverse Biden-era policies that shored up abortion access after the Dobbs decision and to perhaps go further to undermine the efforts by blue states to respond to Roe’s reversal. And his administration may also be forced to choose whether to pursue other changes, such as how the abortion drug mifepristone is regulated.

Asked by CNN about a dozen specific regulatory or legal decisions concerning national abortion policy that are facing the incoming Trump administration, a spokesperson for his transition said, “President Trump has long been consistent in supporting the rights of states to make decisions on abortion.”

Read more about what a second Trump presidency could mean for abortion rights.