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    President-elect Donald Trump began making key choices for his second administration.

    Tom Homan, the former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will become a “border czar” overseeing deportation policy for undocumented immigrants and aviation security, Trump announced Sunday night.

    He also named the president-elect representative Elise StefanikRN.Y., to be the next Ambassador to the United Nations, according multiple reports. The New York lawmaker accepted the offer.

    Trump’s election comes as Republicans prepare keep control of the House. Currently, a party needs 218 seats to lead the lower House, and Republicans have so far locked up 213, compared to Democrats’ 203.

    Stay tuned for live updates from the USA TODAY Network.

    Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt is dropping out of the attorney general race

    The race for jobs in the next Trump administration is underway — and it’s starting to include the names of people dropping out of the various races.

    For example: Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., confirmed Monday that he had asked Trump’s transition officials not to consider him for attorney general.

    “I’m running for the US Senate to represent the people of the Show Me State and I’m just getting started,” Schmitt said in a post on X.

    Among the names believed to still be in consideration for the Justice Department: Mike Lee, a senator from Utah; John Ratcliffe, Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence, and Jeffrey Clark, former Deputy Attorney General.

    -David Jackson

    President-elect Donald Trump talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and advised him not to escalate the war in Ukraine, a source familiar with the conversation told Reuters on Sunday, as President Joe Biden plans to urge Trump not to abandon Kiev.

    Trump and Putin have spoken in recent days, the source said. Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. Trump has criticized the scale of US military and financial support for Kiev, vowing to end the war quickly, without saying how.

    – Reuters

    Donald Trump has named Stephen Miller, one of his longest-serving immigration advisers, as deputy chief of staff for policy at the incoming White House.

    Vice President-elect JD Vance congratulated Miller on his new role in a post on X after CNN first reported the move. “This is another fantastic choice of president,” Vance said.

    Miller’s appointment comes after Trump campaigned for president in 2024 calling for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants who are in the country illegally.

    Miller, 39, was Trump’s senior adviser and speechwriting director during the Republican’s first term in the White House and is credited with shaping Trump’s immigration policies, which have included separating migrant children from their families and banning travel from predominantly Muslim countries. Miller played a central role in Trump’s 2024 campaign.

    – Joey Garrison

    Republicans will take control of the Senate from Democrats in 2025. They are expected to control the chamber 53-47, although a Senate race in Arizona has not been officially called.

    In Parliament, either party would need 218 seats to take control of the chamber. Republicans are poised to hit that crucial number: Of the 435 seats in the House, 203 have been called for Democrats and 213 for Republicans.

    – Marina Pitofsky

    Tom Homan, the former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will become a “border czar” overseeing deportation policy for undocumented immigrants and aviation security, President-elect Donald Trump announced.

    Homan was a controversial figure in Trump’s first term as he oversaw the “zero tolerance” policy that separated families from undocumented immigrants.

    But he has been a staunch supporter of strict immigration enforcement for Trump, who has promised the mass deportation of an e.estimated at 11 million undocumented immigrants will start on the first day of the mandate, January 20.

    – Bart Jansen

    Donald Trump called representative Elise StefanikRN.Y., to be the next Ambassador to the United Nations, according multiplereports. The New York lawmaker accepted the offer.

    Trump’s appointment of Stefanik, a longtime ally in Congress, is his first cabinet pick after being re-elected to a second, nonconsecutive term in the White House on Tuesday.

    One of Stefanik’s the most prominent moments came last year during a congressional hearing with college presidents from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT. During the hearing, she asked them whether calling for the genocide of the Jews warranted disciplinary action.

    All three presidents ducked and dodged the question, instead offering legalistic answers without directly condemning the call for the genocide of the Jews. Two of the chairs, former Penn president Liz Magill and former Harvard president Claudine Gay, have since left their posts.

    – Savannah Kuchar

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