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The Tap: Sunday, November 13, 2016

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The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.

Review of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #43 of The Tap, which was published on November 19, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

  • Donald Trump announced that he has appointed Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his future chief of staff and Trump campaign executive chairman Steve Bannon as chief strategist. These are the first major appointments of Trump’s presidential administration. Trump said in a statement, “Steve and Reince are highly qualified leaders who worked well together on our campaign and led us to a historic victory. Now I will have them both with me in the White House as we work to make America great again.”
    • Republican lawmakers welcomed the news of Priebus’ appointment. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who opposed Trump throughout the 2016 campaign, tweeted, “Congrats to @realDonaldTrump for outstanding choice of @Reince to be Chief of Staff. This shows me he is serious about governing.” This sentiment was echoed by Priebus’ fellow Wisconsinites, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Wis. Gov. Scott Walker. Some of Trump’s supporters, however, signalled disapproval of Priebus’ appointment. Roger Stone, a former Trump advisor, tweeted two days before the official announcement, “The selection of @reince for COS in a @realDonaldTrump WH would cause a rebellion in Trump's base. #RyansBoy.” Similarly, the group Tea Party Patriots, which celebrated Trump’s election, said that Priebus’ appointment as chief of staff would be “sad and disappointing.”
    • Trump’s selection of Bannon, who previously served as the CEO of the alt-right news site Breitbart.com, generated more mixed reactions from Republicans. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) called Bannon an “excellent choice,” but House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told CBS News, “You cannot judge everything that President-elect Trump is doing based on one person. For too long we’ve wanted to tear people down. I give people the benefit of the doubt. This country needs to focus on bringing people together.” Several Democratic lawmakers, media organizations, and outside groups have called Bannon “anti-semitic,” “racist,” and “misogynistic.”
  • In a wide-ranging interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Donald Trump discussed the post-election political environment and how he planned to implement new healthcare, immigration, and tax policies at the start of his presidency.
    • On the tone of the campaign: "I mean they were tough and I was tough and—do I regret? I mean, I’m sitting here with you now and we’re gonna do a great job for the country. We’re going to make America great again, I mean, that’s what—it—it began with that and that’s where we are right now.”
    • On deporting undocumented immigrants: "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate. But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally. After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about who are terrific people."
    • On threats against Latinos and Muslims: "I am so saddened to hear that. And I say, 'Stop it.' If it—if it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it."
    • On whether he would ask for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton: "I don’t want to hurt them. I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people. I don’t want to hurt them. And I will give you a very, very good and definitive answer the next time we do 60 Minutes together."
    • On marriage equality: "It—it’s irrelevant because it was already settled. It’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done. It’s done. It—you have—these cases have gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And, I’m fine with that."
    • On repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act: "No, we’re going to do it simultaneously. It’ll be just fine. We’re not going to have, like, a two-day period and we’re not going to have a two-year period where there’s nothing. It will be repealed and replaced. And we’ll know. And it’ll be great health care for much less money. So it’ll be better health care, much better, for less money. Not a bad combination." Trump also said that he would support the coverage of individuals with pre-existing conditions, which he called "one of the strongest assets" of the ACA.
  • House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that additional congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton were not part of the Republicans' agenda in the upcoming session. Republicans would instead focus on job creation, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, and infrastructure, the Associated Press reported.
  • House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said that the Trump administration would be focused more on border security than deportation. "We're focused on securing the border. We think that's first and foremost, before we get into any other immigration issue. We've got to know who's coming and going in the country. We've got to secure the border," he said.


Preview of the day

There were no items for this day in issue #42 of The Tap, which was published on November 12, 2016. See the "Review of the day" tab for more information.





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