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(The Guardian) rom the president-elect’s pool report: Hope Hicks sends the following update about the president-elect’s plans for tonight: ‘Now heading to NYC’
That is the full extent of what she has told me.
She is not responding to questions about his schedule for the rest of the day
The “dishonest press” is getting its comeuppance from the new administration, it seems.
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Nov 10 2016, 05:22 PM
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(The Guardian) President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has announced that former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell will be in charge of handling domestic policy issues in relation to the upcoming Trump administration’s legislative and executive priorities in its first hundred days
Blackwell, who currently works as a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, a Christian lobbying organization that lobbies lawmakers against LGBT rights, abortion and pornography, first gained national attention in 2006, when he was running to serve as Ohio’s governor.
In an interview at the time, Blackwell declared that homosexuality was a “lifestyle” that “can be changed.
“I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,” Blackwell told the Columbus Dispatch at the time. “I think it is a transgression against God’s law, God’s will.”
“The reality is, again,” Blackwell continued, “that I think we make choices all the time. And I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one’s genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist or might make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that they can be changed? Yes.”
Trump himself has said that, while he does not support same-sex marriage rights, he does support LGBT rights. Vice president-elect Mike Pence, on the other hand, first emerged on the national stage after signing an expansive anti-LGBT measure into law, and once signed into law a bill that would send same-sex couples attempting to obtain marriage licenses to jail.
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Nov 10 2016, 07:16 PM
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NPR: What Would Trump's First 100 Days Potentially Look Like?

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At the end of October, Donald Trump spoke in Gettysburg, Pa., and released a plan for his first 100 days in office.
The plan (below) outlines three main areas of focus: cleaning up Washington, including by imposing term limits on Congress; protecting American workers; and restoring rule of law. He also laid out his plan for working with Congress to introduce 10 pieces of legislation that would repeal Obamacare, fund the construction of a wall at the Southern border (with a provision that Mexico would reimburse the U.S.), encourage infrastructure investment, rebuild military bases, promote school choice and more.
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell mostly made nice with Trump but also shot down or expressed little enthusiasm in some of his plans. On Trump's proposal to impose term limits on Congress, McConnell said, "It will not be on the agenda in the Senate." McConnell has been a long-standing opponent of term limits, as NPR's Susan Davis reports. "I would say we have term limits now — they're called elections."
McConnell also threw some cold water on Trump's infrastructure plans, calling it not a top priority.
McConnell did say repealing Obamacare is a "pretty high item on our agenda" along with comprehensive tax reform and achieving border security "in whatever way is the most effective." But he also declined to discuss the Senate's immigration agenda further.
"We look forward to working with him," McConnell said. "I think most of the things that he's likely to advocate we're going to be enthusiastically for." -Read more: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
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Nov 11 2016, 02:50 AM
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New York Times: Abe To Meet With Trump To Discuss Security & Trade

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TOKYO — Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, did not take long to recover from the shock of Donald J. Trump’s victory. By Thursday morning — Wednesday night in the United States — Mr. Abe had called the president-elect and arranged to meet him in New York next week.
In hustling to be one of the first world leaders to meet with Mr. Trump since the election, Mr. Abe is seeking to gauge the sincerity of Mr. Trump’s campaign rhetoric on Japan. As a candidate, he repeatedly excoriated the country, along with other American allies, for not paying what he called its fair share to support American military bases, and he suggested he might withdraw troops unless Japan agreed to pay more.
Mr. Abe will also probably want to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal between the United States and several Asian countries, including Japan, that Mr. Trump has said he would consign to the dustbin. The Abe administration considers the pact, which moved closer to ratification on Thursday with approval in Japan’s lower house of Parliament, an important plank in his economic policy. -Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/world/asia/japan-donald-trump-shinzo-abe.html?_r=0
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Nov 11 2016, 03:28 AM
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Wall Street Journal: Trump's Foreign Policy Stances Sow Uncertainties

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WASHINGTON—The election of Donald Trump throws into doubt longtime fixtures of America’s foreign policy and military posture, raising the stakes across the globe for the coming transition from one commander-in-chief to another.
Mr. Trump has promised to escalate a dispute with China over currency values, force Mexico to pay for a 1,000-mile wall along the U.S. border, and reverse a nuclear deal the Obama administration negotiated with Iran. He has also vowed to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. while blocking visitors from countries that have histories of terrorism.
His positions have unnerved U.S. allies, prompting some of them to exhort the U.S. to hew to its traditional international roles. Mr. Trump began reaching out to world leaders on Wednesday, placing calls to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi of Egypt and Saudi Arabian King Salman.
Little is yet known about how Mr. Trump’s campaign promises and threats will translate into new foreign policy. He has asserted vague positions and has shifted course after articulating clear ones—such as his suggestion that some U.S. allies in Asia and the Middle East should acquire their own nuclear weapons, and that the U.S. may exit longtime security alliances.
Mr. Trump assured the leaders of Japan and South Korea of the U.S. commitment to their countries on Thursday, according to their accounts, despite a campaign threat to withdraw U.S. troops if the two allies don’t boost compensation to the United States for what he deemed as military protection.
That unpredictability has generated alarm within the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and among many world leaders who have long looked to the U.S. for providing the bedrock of stability.
“America’s national security is now heading into uncharted territory at a time of great geopolitical uncertainty,” said Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. “The usual rule that U.S. foreign policy actually changes incrementally and gradually between administrations may not apply here.”
Mr. Trump sought to ease some of those concerns in his victory speech early Wednesday.
“I want to tell the world community that while we will always put America’s interests first, we will deal fairly with everyone,” he said. “We will seek common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict.”
Mr. Obama said he would work to ensure a smooth transition for Mr. Trump.
“The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy,” he said Wednesday. “And over the next few months, we are going to show that to the world.”
After the meeting between Messrs. Obama and Trump on Thursday at the White House, Mr. Obama embarks on the final foreign trip of his presidency, with stops in Greece, Berlin and at a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, where he is sure to face a barrage of questions about his successor.
Mr. Obama will try to reassure allies by noting that America’s alliances have endured regardless of who is president, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
Mr. Obama still believes Mr. Trump is unfit to serve as president and shouldn’t be trusted with the country’s nuclear weapons, as he said in the campaign, but respected the election results, Mr. Earnest said. ...continued in next post...
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Mr. Trump will take charge of a volatile global landscape. Foreign policy is a realm in which a president has broad latitude to act unilaterally on decisions ranging from military action to economic ties and diplomacy.
Mr. Obama worked around partisan gridlock in Congress to commit the U.S. to major foreign-policy initiatives without consent from lawmakers, including the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a global climate-change agreement, and a deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. All of these are now in peril.
Mr. Trump has called global warming a hoax and said he would withdraw from the recent Paris climate deal. He also called the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran a disaster and has suggested he would back out of it soon after taking office.
During his campaign, Mr. Trump demanded that European countries pay more into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the threat of yanking U.S. military support.
His pledges to redraw the North American Free Trade Agreement and deport millions of undocumented migrants have also scrambled America’s usually low-friction relations with Mexico.
Mr. Trump promised to repair strained U.S. relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he has praised as a stronger leader than Mr. Obama. Moscow has repeatedly challenged American interests in recent years, but Mr. Putin was among the first world leaders to congratulate Mr. Trump on his election, posting a message on the Kremlin website. Russia’s Interfax news agency said Russia was in contact with Mr. Trump during the campaign; a campaign spokeswoman said the report was false.
“The most immediate and obvious place where things might shift is U.S. policy on Russia and how it relates to various theaters like NATO allies, Ukraine, and Syria,” Mr. Katulis said.
A pressing issue for Mr. Trump is assembling a national security team. His campaign advisers represent a mix of those with deep national security experience, such as former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R., Mich.), and those who have found more populist appeal among conservatives, such as Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.). The number of those seeking to serve in his administration is expected to grow as Mr. Trump zeroes in on his national-security priorities.
“There are a lot of really talented people who will serve if asked,” said Stewart Baker, former general counsel at the National Security Agency. “We’re likely to see a lot of pretty good talent running some of these agencies.”
On policy, Mr. Trump will quickly have to make decisions in the fight against the Islamic State terror network, a fluid and rapidly unfolding challenge as the U.S. moves to retake the group’s strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
Mr. Obama’s strategy of airstrikes, deploying U.S. special-operations forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria and covert missions to assist opposition fighters has yielded incremental progress.
Mr. Trump has complained that the Pentagon’s support for the Iraqi military to retake the city of Mosul has been unorganized, and he has said U.S. intelligence agencies have failed to protect Americans from terror attacks.
In his campaign he said he had a secret plan to defeat Islamic State and would ask senior military leaders to submit their own plans within 30 days of taking office. He also said he would replace many senior generals and admirals with ones he believes are more competent, unnerving many in the Pentagon.
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Nov 11 2016, 03:31 AM
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Reuters: U.S. LGBT Community Fears Backlash In Wake Of Trump Victory
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NEW YORK, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election this week has left many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocates fearing a backlash against their community.
The president-elect said during his election campaign he embraced the LGBT community. But his choice for vice-president, Mike Pence, has rankled many LGBT rights activists who are wary of the current Indiana governor's years of opposition to gay rights.
Here are some reactions to Trump's election on the subject of LGBT rights:
SARAH KATE ELLIS, PRESIDENT, GLAAD, AN LGBT ADVOCACY GROUP --"Donald Trump sits atop the most hateful Republican platform in history, one that sorely endangers the most fundamental American values of fairness and equality for all. America stands tallest when it stands firmly in its founding principle that all people are created equal. With the election behind him, President-elect Trump must now rise above divisive politics and side with the vast majority of Americans who demand equality for their LGBTQ friends, family, and neighbours.
"While disappointed, we are certainly not defeated; the pursuit of full acceptance will continue until everyone, no matter who they are or who they love, can simply live the life they love."
CLARK POMERLEAU, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS --"Trump promised Supreme Court picks like Justice (Antonin) Scalia; a conservative court would likely rule against transgender Americans using public facilities that match their gender identity. Republicans in Congress will seek to pass a First Amendment Defence Act, which Trump promised to sign. Then religious conservatives would 'legally' discriminate against LGBT people in healthcare, housing, hiring, and selling goods and services. Pence has already proposed diverting federal money from HIV/AIDS-related public health to gay 'cures' that the American Psychiatric Association discredited. And Trump's anti-immigrant views will be no friend to LGBT asylum seekers."
RACHEL TIVEN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LAMBDA LEGAL --"Donald Trump rode to the presidency by threatening and demeaning his fellow Americans. The LGBT movement spent the past 20 years teaching schools and parents what bullying looks like - now we have elected a bully as president. Whatever Donald Trump believes in his heart about LGBT people, he clearly intends to appoint people to executive branch agencies who are hostile to us."
BRIAN BROWN, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE --"President-elect Trump has promised to appoint judges in the mould of Antonin Scalia, meaning that his judicial appointees are likely to reverse the illegitimate, anti-constitutional Obergefell ruling imposing same-sex 'marriage' on the nation.
"We expect him to reverse President Obama's dangerous 'gender identity' agenda that is being pushed on children in the public schools. We also expect him to abandon attempts to impose the LGBT agenda on other nations by making U.S. support and aid contingent on support for gay marriage. And Mr. Trump supports the First Amendment Defence Act to protect supporters of marriage against governmental persecution."
MARA KEISLING, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY --"Transgender people and those who love us are understandably gravely concerned about what this election will mean for our families, our communities, our children, and our country. Vice President-elect Pence has made clear during his tenure as the governor of Indiana that he is completely opposed to the liberty of LGBT people and that President-elect Trump will roll back recent LGBT equality gains.
"Yet at the same time, Trump recently posed on stage with a rainbow flag, and in his victory speech last night, he pledged to be 'president for all Americans'. It is now our job to make sure he lives up to that promise. We will fight to advance justice, and we will fight hard to defend every single advance we have made."
SARAH MCBRIDE, NATIONAL PRESS SECRETARY, HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN --"This morning, LGBTQ people - particularly young people and their parents - woke up scared and filled with questions about our country and their place in it. From lifesaving support for transgender students to protections for LGBTQ workers, much of our community's progress over the last eight years is at risk after yesterday's election.
"What will definitively and irreversibly remain, though, are the hearts that have been opened and the minds that have been changed. As a country and a movement, we've known setbacks, but we must redouble our efforts to defeat hate wherever it exists and move our country forward, together."
SHANNON GILREATH, PROFESSOR OF LAW AND OF WOMEN'S GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES, WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY --"In the spirit of optimism, I'd like to point to a few slivers of hope. Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate to go on stage at a national convention and discuss gay people as if we were anything other than malefic. He called us friends, claimed he would protect us. Prior to 2016, no Republican nominee would have arrived at a rally carrying a gay flag. He called North Carolina's odious HB2 (law requiring transgender people to use a bathroom corresponding to their biological sex) ridiculous.
"Naturally, Trump's choice of Pence as his running mate is very disturbing. Still, Trump has been vocally pro-gay. I'm going to hope he reveals himself to be, for us gay people, the president he's promised to be."
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Nov 11 2016, 03:38 AM
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GovTech: Will A Trump Presidency Mean The End Of America's Solar Energy Industry?

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(TNS) -- Donald Trump's election victory could put a damper on the already-slowing growth of the solar energy industry and companies like SolarCity.
While Trump said relatively little about his energy policy views during the campaign, what he did say was generally favorable to the oil and natural gas industry and skeptical of efforts to put tighter regulations on the fossil fuel industry, especially coal. He also has questioned the broadly held belief within the scientific community that humans are causing climate change.
Trump has vowed to “unleash an energy revolution that will bring vast new wealth to our country.” He also said he will “unleash America’s $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil and natural gas reserves, plus hundreds of years in clean coal reserves.”
For the solar energy industry and SolarCity, which is preparing to begin production at what will be the Western Hemisphere's biggest solar panel factory in Buffalo next year, Trump's election raises uncertainty about the fate of the 30 percent federal investment tax credit on solar energy projects.
Trump hasn't said he will attempt to repeal the tax credit, which last year was extended through the end of 2019, but analysts believe that could be on the table. Changing or repealing the tax credit also would have to be approved by the Republican-controlled Congress.
"Trump's possible efforts to end incentives for alternative energy development would boost near-term demand for fossil fuels," said a report by analysts at S&P Global Platts. "A potential cut in the Investment Tax Credit to 10 percent from the current 30 percent would slash solar installation demand by 60 percent." -Read more: http://www.govtech.com/fs/Will-a-Trump-Presidency-Mean-the-End-of-Americas-Solar-Energy-Industry.html
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(The Guardian) Trump receives advisers at Trump tower --Here’s what Donald Trump says he’s up to this morning:
--Busy day planned in New York. Will soon be making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government! (Pres.-Elect Donald J. Trump, 11 Nov. 2016)
Trump pool reporter Zeke Miller of Time magazine describes new security measures at Trump tower, which initially included Miller’s being not allowed into the building:
Good morning from midtown Manhattan where your transition pool is holding in a media pen across Fifth Avenue from Trump Tower after being denied entry to the building by NYPD. (Even to the Starbucks!) The building is now a fortress. The sand trucks which ringed the building around Election Day have been replaced by jersey barriers and NYPD-marked concrete blocks. 56th street has been closed and now has NYPD-USSS joint checkpoints on each end. (This appears to be where the motorcade is staged, along with an FDNY ambulance on permanent standby.) There is large and overt police presence around the building and pedestrian access has been restricted along 56th between 5th and Madison, and along 5th between 56th and 57th.
Technically we have a “lid” from the President-Elect’s office, but we have no assurance there won’t be movements.
Update 1: The only action so far: the Trump Tower marquee was briefly papered-over for window cleaning.
Note: The New York City Veterans Day Parade is scheduled to pass in front of Trump Tower later this morning.
Update 2: Your pool has made it into Trump Tower. It appeared to be an NYPD communication issue. We’re now holding on the benches in the atrium and grabbing coffee.
Update 3: Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski arrived at about 9:30 while talking on the phone. He acknowledged the pool and seemed like he’d stop to talk to us, before boarding one of the Trump Tower elevators.
Brad Parscale arrived at ~9:40 Rudy Giuliani arrived at ~9:50
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...continuing the previous post.... Further via the Trump transition press pool:
--Trump’s Senior Communications Adviser Jason Miller arrived as well as senior advisor Stephen Miller. --Trump’s deputy campaign manager David Bossie entered the building at 9:00 a.m. --At 9:06 a.m. Trump campaign CEO Stephen K. Bannon arrived. --At 9:07 a.m. Hope Hicks arrived.
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(The Guardian) Sanders: 'this is America' --This is America and we aren't going to throw out 11 million people who are undocumented. We’re not going to turn against Muslims. (Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT - 11 Nov. 2016)
--Our job is to deal with the real issues – to deal with our rigged political and economic system – not take our anger out on our neighbors. (Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT - 11 Nov. 2016)
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(The Guardian) 'Million women march' after inauguration --Organizers are planning a “million women march” on Washington, DC, on Saturday, 21 January, the day after the inauguration.
Check out the Facebook page:
This is an INCLUSIVE march, and EVERYONE who supports women’s rights are welcome:
- Women & Girls & Femmes & GNC - Men & Boys - Families - People of Color - Immigrants - LGBTQ Community - Disabled Folks - Climate Change Advocates - ALL religious communities - Anyone else who wants to come out in support! -Read more: https://www.facebook.com/events/2169332969958991/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1478872830536242
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(The Guardian) Trump’s team is discussing ways to punish disloyal Republicans, Politico reports:
Donald Trump has 70 days to build a government and figure out how to run it, but some of his allies are spending the early days of his transition plotting revenge against those they believe slighted Trump — and them.
Since Trump’s shocking upset victory in Tuesday’s presidential election, several people who worked on his team have discussed ways to punish Republicans who were hostile to the New York billionaire’s anti-establishment campaign, including blocking them from administration or transition posts, or lucrative consulting work, according to a handful of people involved in the conversations. [...]
“My phone is ringing off the hook with people who were on the outs asking how they can get into Trump world,” said one operative who worked with Trump’s campaign. “I’m telling them there is no f---ing way they’re getting inside.”
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(The Guardian) Trump wants to spend but Republicans hold purse strings --Donald Trump has vowed to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges, airports and railways, but the path to delivering on that promise is full of potholes, the AP reports:
When President Barack Obama tried to do it, a Republican Congress fought him at almost every turn, and Trump would have to contend with his party’s deep-seated dislike for government spending and higher taxes to meet the $1 trillion tab for his proposals.
The transportation industry sees hope in Trump’s plans, which he made the first policy issue in his Wednesday victory speech.
“We are going to fix our inner cities ... We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none,” he said. “And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it.”
But Trump has been vague what about he’d do and what it would cost. During the campaign he said he’d double the $275 billion boost in government infrastructure spending proposed by his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. A recent paper by Trump advisers calls for using federal tax credits to generate $1 trillion in private sector infrastructure investment over a decade. To offset the cost of the credits, U.S. corporations would be encouraged to bring home profits parked overseas to avoid taxes, in exchange for a low tax rate.
If that corporate tax “repatriation” idea sounds familiar, it’s probably because Obama has been urging Congress to do that, and Clinton cited repatriation as the way she would pay for her infrastructure plan. -Read more: https://www.apnews.com/8efb698c246947a1b5fb34ba837b20ad/Trump's-path-to-boosting-infrastructure-is-full-of-potholes
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(The Guardian) Pieces of financial regulatory law may survive Trump - report --“The Trump administration is eyeing a more limited repeal of the 2010 Dodd Frank financial regulatory law, despite the Republican president-elect’s campaign promise for a full repeal of the financial overhaul, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday, citing unnamed sources,” Reuters says. Here’s the WSJ:
Instead, Mr. Trump’s team is focused on rescinding or scaling back the individual provisions Republicans find most objectionable, such as the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s authority to designate large nonbanks systemically important and thus subject to tougher regulation from the Federal Reserve.
These people said another priority is overhauling a separate section of Dodd-Frank, Title II, that gives financial regulators the authority to take over a failing financial firm and liquidate it—an alternative to the government’s 2008 strategy of bailing out banks by handing them equity capital.
At the same time, a Trump administration is expected to embrace other aspects of the massive law, these people said, including efforts to boost the transparency of credit-rating firms and regulate derivatives products—the complex financial instruments at the heart of the financial crisis.
Mr. Trump’s financial policy team is still being assembled and its priorities could change.
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