Here’s what we’re watching in transition world today:
🗓️ What we’re watching
- President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to back Pete Hegseth, his embattled pick for Defense secretary. “His support is strong and deep, much more so than the Fake News would have you believe,” Trump said Friday morning on Truth Social.
- Trump’s defense of Hegseth is notable, given the former Fox News host said on Thursday that he wouldn’t drop out “as long as Donald Trump wants me in this fight.”
👀 What’s Trump up to?
- No public plans today, but Trump is going to the Army-Navy football game on Dec. 14.
🚨What’s up with the nominees?
- The Heritage Foundation is spending $1 million to pressure senators to back Hegseth, the Associated Press reports.
📝ICYMI: Here are the latest Trump administration picks
- Former GOP Sen. David Perdue is Trump’s choice for ambassador to China.
- Trump tapped Rodney Scott as his top choice for commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
- Caleb Vitello, the assistant director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was picked to serve as acting director of ICE.
- Venture capitalist David Sacks will be a “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar.”