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Topic Started: Nov 9 2016, 10:16 PM (715 Views)
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Now that the election is over and we have a President-elect, it is time to follow the transition from Obama to Trump.....

.....God save the Republic. :devil1:
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MSN News: How Trump Came Around To Tillerson For SecState

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Donald Trump sat in his office at Trump Tower on Dec. 2 facing the most important choice of his transition to the presidency, and his indecision had set off a war among his top aides.

Some favored Mitt Romney, who had trashed Trump during the campaign. Many wanted the ultimate loyalist, Rudolph W. Giuliani. Others preferred Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) or retired Gen. David Petraeus. Trump, who hated being pressured when making important decisions, insisted he needed more time. He seemed to have misgivings about all of them.

Then, by happenstance, Trump welcomed into his office a man who has served presidents of both parties, Robert M. Gates. Trump asked his guest, a former CIA director and former secretary of defense, what he thought of the four candidates. After Gates ran through his thoughts, it seemed that Trump was “looking for a way out,” a person familiar with the session said.

Trump asked if there was someone else to consider.

“I recommend Rex,” Gates told Trump, referring to Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil. Gates said in an interview that he had not gone to the meeting intending to recommend Tillerson, and he did not recommend anyone else. Separately, on the previous day, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice had proposed Tillerson to Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Rice and Gates, who run a consulting firm that counts ExxonMobil as a client, had jointly concluded that Tillerson might give Trump a fresh alternative.

Trump “seemed intrigued,” Gates said. “It was not something he had considered.”

The result was an unexpected decision, nominating as the country’s top diplomat a multinational corporate chief executive who had previously been on nobody’s short list for the job. It provided an object lesson in the decision-making process and leadership style of a president-elect who has never worked in government and is applying his un­or­tho­dox style to decisions that could shape the world.
-Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-wasn%E2%80%99t-happy-with-his-state-department-finalists-then-he-heard-a-new-name/ar-AAlwBR8
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MSN News: Trump Invites Senate Clash With Tillerson Appointment

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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is inviting a clash in the narrowly divided Senate by choosing Rex Tillerson for secretary of State in the face of well-publicized concerns from several GOP senators over the oil executive's ties to Russia.

The likely confirmation fight could be an early test of Trump's sway over Congress, and demonstrate how much appetite there is among Republicans to stand up to their president.

For now, three Republican senators have publicly voiced concerns about the Tillerson nomination: Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida. All have cited the Exxon Mobil executive's history of making deals in Russia and his close ties with Vladimir Putin, which include opposing sanctions sought by the U.S. and Europe against Russia after it invaded Crimea.

However, none of the three has said thus far that he will oppose Tillerson. And only Rubio sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will hold a confirmation hearing in early January to consider the nomination.

"While Rex Tillerson is a respected businessman, I have serious concerns about his nomination. The next secretary of state must be someone who views the world with moral clarity, is free of potential conflicts of interest, has a clear sense of America's interests, and will be a forceful advocate for America's foreign policy goals," Rubio said. "I will do my part to ensure he receives a full and fair but also thorough hearing."

The committee currently has 10 Republican and 9 Democratic members, meaning Tillerson needs support from every Republican to get a successful committee vote, presuming Democrats all oppose him. Yet even if the panel rejects him, there is precedent for the full Senate to take up his nomination.

The Senate will be divided 52-48 next year in favor of the Republicans, meaning Tillerson could lose only two Republicans if all Democrats voted "No." It's also possible, though, that Tillerson could garner support from one or more of the moderate Democrats.

The last time the Senate rejected a presidential Cabinet pick was in 1989 when it voted down John Tower as George H.W. Bush's defense secretary after he had already been rejected by the Armed Services committee. More frequently, nominees have withdrawn from consideration when opposition built, as happened in 2009 with Tom Daschle, President Barack Obama's first pick for Health and Human Services secretary.

It was unclear Tuesday whether the fight over Tillerson would turn into a major brawl in the Senate or just a minor skirmish. One question is how hard Democrats, who've made clear they want to focus on economic issues, will fight. Several issued statements Tuesday angrily denouncing the nomination, but the Democrats' incoming leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, was more measured, pointing to Tillerson's Russia ties and calling for a thorough and lengthy confirmation hearing "given these serious concerns."

Tillerson immediately picked up support from the top two Senate Republicans, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. McConnell praised Tillerson's "decades of experience" and concluded: "I look forward to supporting his nomination."

The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker of Tennessee, who was himself passed over for the job at State, also issued a favorable statement, though without saying how he planned to vote. Several other GOP committee members issued statements praising Tillerson or sounding open to his nomination. Still others were taking a wait-and-see approach, including Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, who said: "Congress has the constitutional responsibility of advice and consent and we will rigorously exercise it."

In talking points circulated on Capitol Hill, Trump's transition team sought to portray Tillerson's ties to Russia as a positive. "Mr. Tillerson's experience with Russia and the Russian president will prove to be invaluable. President Putin knows Mr. Tillerson means what he says," the talking points say.

For congressional Republicans and Trump, a major question hanging over their emerging relationship is what steps Trump may take to keep party members in line, and how Republicans will respond in turn. Few GOP lawmakers, especially those up for re-election, want to be on the receiving end of a critical tweet from Trump. The Tillerson confirmation may offer clues to how that dynamic will play out throughout Trump's administration, including when Trump takes policy stances contrary to GOP dogma, such as pushing for stiff tariffs on imports or a massive infrastructure bill.

Electoral considerations may already be playing into lawmakers' posture toward Trump. GOP Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who serves on the Foreign Relations Committee, was one of the most outspoken Republicans against Trump ahead of the election, including challenging him to his face during a Capitol Hill visit in July.

But Flake is up for re-election in 2018 in a state Trump won, and has already drawn a conservative primary opponent. On Tuesday, Flake issued a statement sounding open to Tillerson's nomination, citing his support from former secretaries of State and Defense marshaled by Trump's team.

Backing from former Secretaries of State James Baker and Condoleezza Rice, and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates carry "considerable weight," Flake said. "I look forward to the hearings."
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Reuters: Uber, SpaceX/Tesla, and PepsiCo execs join Trump business council

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Elon Musk, the chairman and chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla as well as Uber Technologies CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick and PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi have joined U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's advisory council, Trump's transition team said on Wednesday.

The group, which includes numerous other top business leaders, aims to give industry input on the private sector to Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20.
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Washington Post: Trump NSA Pick Improperly Shared Classified Material, Reports Say
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A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” classified information with foreign military officers in Afghanistan, newly released documents show.

Although Flynn lacked authorization to share the classified material, he was not disciplined or reprimanded after the investigation concluded that he did not act “knowingly” and that “there was no actual or potential damage to national security as a result,” according to Army records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act.

Flynn has previously acknowledged that he was investigated while serving as the U.S. military intelligence chief in Afghanistan for sharing secrets with British and Australian allies there. But he has dismissed the case as insignificant and has given few details.

The Army documents provide the first official account of the case, but they are limited in scope because the investigation itself remains classified. Former U.S. officials familiar with the matter said that Flynn was accused of telling allies about the activities of other agencies in Afghanistan, including the CIA.

The Army files call into question Flynn’s prior assertion that he had permission to share the sensitive information.

During the presidential race, Flynn campaigned vigorously for Republican nominee Donald Trump and drew attention for his scalding attacks against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified material. Clinton was investigated by the FBI for allowing classified information to be transmitted on her private email server when she ran the State Department. No charges were filed against the former secretary of state, but the issue dogged her for more than a year.

At the Republican National Convention in July, Flynn called on Clinton to drop out of the race for putting “our nation’s security at extremely high risk with her careless use of a private email server.” He egged on the partisan crowd in chants of “lock her up,” adding: “If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth, a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today.”

Flynn did not respond to requests for comment.
-Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-national-security-adviser-shared-secrets-without-permission-files-show/2016/12/13/72669740-c146-11e6-9578-0054287507db_story.html?utm_term=.f3f5f243c14f
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Current 1st Trump Administration Cabinet-to-be....
--State: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson
--Treasury: Goldman Sachs exec Steven Mnuchin
--Defense: Gen. James Mattis, USMC Ret.
--Atty. Gen.: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
--Interior: Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT)
--Commerce: business magnate Wilbur Ross
--Labor: CKE (Hardee's/Carl's Jr.) exec Andrew Puzder
--HHS: Rep. Tom Price (R-GA)
--HUD: Dr. Ben Carson
--Transportation: Elaine Chao
--Energy: Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX)
--Education: Amway magnate Betsy DeVos
--Homeland Security: Gen. John Kelly, USMC Ret.
--U.S. Amb. to the U.N.: Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC)
--WH Chief of Staff: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
--EPA: Okla. Atty. Gen. Scott Pruitt
--OMB Director: Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC)
--SBA Admin.: WWE exec Linda McMahon
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--A heartfelt message from President Elect @realDonaldTrump (Trump Pence 2016, 18 Dec. 2016)
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The Guardian: Trump Adds Carl Icahn To As Regulatory Advisor

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Donald Trump added another billionaire to his presidential transition team on Wednesday: Carl Icahn, the 80-year-old activist shareholder and long-time friend who once helped Trump keep control of his troubled New Jersey casinos.

Icahn will be a special adviser to the president-elect overseeing regulation, according to the transition team.

According to Forbes, Icahn has a net worth of $16.5bn adding his wealth to a team that already looks set to be the wealthiest White House team in history. Trump had considered him for the post of Treasury secretary but Icahn rejected the suggestions saying: “I’m not ever going to be secretary of anything in Washington.”

This appointment is not an official government position and Icahn will therefore not have to divest of his vast business holdings in order to comply with government-mandated conflict of interest rules.

The hedge fund manager has been one of Trump’s closest advisers and officially endorsed the president-elect in the summer of 2015. “Carl was with me from the beginning and with his being one of the world’s great businessmen, that was something I truly appreciated,” said Trump. Trump said Ichan’s “help on the strangling regulations that our country is faced with will be invaluable”.

Icahn has been a persistent critic of government regulation, most recently “crazy regulations” at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He is a major investor in CVR Energy, an oil refiner, whose business he claims has been harmed by EPA regulations.

Trump consulted with Icahn before appointing Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general and another EPA critic, to head the agency.

“I am proud to serve President-elect Trump as a special adviser on regulatory reform,” said Icahn. “Under President Obama, America’s business owners have been crippled by over $1tn in new regulations and over 750bn hours dealing with paperwork. It’s time to break free of excessive regulation and let our entrepreneurs do what they do best: create jobs and support communities.”

The billionaire, who has a home near Trump’s Palm Beach base, Mar-A-Lago, started his career on Wall Street and has built a reputation as a fierce corporate raider.

Before Trump’s elevation, Icahn was best known for his often heated battles with executives at companies, including Apple, eBay, Dell and Time Warner. In 2015 he took on Apple’s chief executive officer Tim Cook, telling him the iPhone-maker was “dramatically undervalued”.

In the 1990s Icahn was a bondholder in Trump’s failing Taj Mahal casino in New Jersey. Trump was able to keep control if the casino despite failing to make payments to Icahn and other bondholders thanks in large part to advice given by another Trump appointee, Wilbur Ross, a billionaire bankruptcy expert and now Trump’s appointed commerce secretary.
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NPR: Trump Team Asks State Dept. To Name Those Working On Gender Equality
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President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has asked the State Department to list its workers who focus on gender equality and ending violence against women, in what's being seen as an echo of an earlier request for the Energy Department to list employees who work on climate change.

In a brief email that was sent Wednesday morning, the Trump team asked the State Department's bureaus and offices to list any programs or activities that "promote gender equality, such as ending gender-based violence, promoting women's participation in economic and political spheres, entrepreneurship, etc."

The email was acquired and published by The New York Times, which reports: "Although the wording of the memo is neutral and does not hint at any policy change, it rattled State Department employees, even those at senior levels. Some officials said they feared that the incoming Trump administration was trying to determine what programs were focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, though the memo did not refer to them."

The team also asked the department offices to "note positions whose primary functions are to promote such issues" and to highlight any funds for the current financial year that are "already allocated to such programs and activities."
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--State: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson
--Treasury: Goldman Sachs exec Steven Mnuchin
--Defense: Gen. James Mattis, USMC Ret.
--Atty. Gen.: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
--Interior: Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT)
--Commerce: business magnate Wilbur Ross
--Labor: CKE (Hardee's/Carl's Jr.) exec Andrew Puzder
--HHS: Rep. Tom Price (R-GA)
--HUD: Dr. Ben Carson
--Transportation: Elaine Chao
--Energy: Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX)
--Education: Amway magnate Betsy DeVos
--Homeland Security: Gen. John Kelly, USMC Ret.
--U.S. Amb. to the U.N.: Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC)
--WH Chief of Staff: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
--EPA: Okla. Atty. Gen. Scott Pruitt
--OMB Director: Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC)
--SBA Admin.: WWE exec Linda McMahon
--WH Counselors: Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon & Trump Pres. Campaign Mgr. Kellyanne Conway
--Nat. Sec. Advisor: Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, U.S. Army Ret
--Dep. Nat. Sec. Advisor: K.T. McFarland
--Director, Nat. Economic Council: Gary Cohn
--WH Press Secretary: RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer
--WH Counsel: Don McGahn
--WH Political Director: David Bossie
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SRN News: Trump Says UN Is "just A Club For People To Have A Good Time"
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Days after the United Nations voted to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Donald Trump questioned its effectiveness Monday, saying it’s just a club for people to “have a good time.”

The president-elect wrote on Twitter that the U.N. has “such great potential,” but it has become “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!”

On Friday, Trump warned, “As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” referring to the day he takes office.

The decision by the Obama administration to abstain from Friday’s U.N. vote brushed aside Trump’s demands that the U.S. exercise its veto and provided a climax to years of icy relations with Israel’s leadership.

Trump told The Associated Press last December that he wanted to be “very neutral” on Israel-Palestinian issues. But his tone became decidedly more pro-Israel as the presidential campaign progressed. He has spoken disparagingly of Palestinians, saying they have been “taken over” by or are condoning militant groups.

Trump’s tweet Monday about the U.N. ignores much of the work that goes on in the 193-member global organization.

This year the U.N. Security Council has approved over 70 legally binding resolutions, including new sanctions on North Korea and measures tackling conflicts and authorizing the U.N.’s far-flung peacekeeping operations around the world. The General Assembly has also approved dozens of resolutions on issues, like the role of diamonds in fueling conflicts; condemned human rights abuses in Iran and North Korea; and authorized an investigation of alleged war crimes in Syria.

Trump’s criticism of the U.N. is by no means unique. While the organization does engage in large-scale humanitarian and peacekeeping efforts, its massive bureaucracy has long been a source of controversy. The organization has been accused by some Western governments of being inefficient and frivolous, while developing nations have said it is overly influenced by wealthier nations.

Trump tweeted later Monday, “The world was gloomy before I won — there was no hope. Now the market is up nearly 10 percent and Christmas spending is over a trillion dollars!”

Markets are up since Trump won the general election, although not quite by that much. The Standard & Poor’s 500 is up about 6 percent since Election Day, while the Dow has risen more than 8 percent. As for holiday spending, auditing and accounting firm Deloitte projected in September that total 2016 holiday sales were expected to exceed $1 trillion, representing a 3.6 percent to 4.0 percent increase in holiday sales from November through January.

Finally, Trump took to Twitter again late Monday to complain about media coverage of his charitable foundation. He wrote that of the “millions of dollars” he has contributed to or raised for the Donald J. Trump Foundation, all of it “is given to charity, and media won’t report.”

Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation before taking office to avoid conflicts of interest. The New York attorney general’s office has been investigating the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump’s campaign.

The president-elect is spending the holidays at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. He had no public schedule Monday.
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MSN news: Trump Taps Former Bush-43 Aide For Coutnerterrorism Spot

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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a national security aide of former President George W. Bush as his counterterrorism adviser.

Tom Bossert, who served as Bush's Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, will join Trump's White House as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

That role will be expanded under the Trump administration, according to a news release announcing the appointment, to give Bossert an "independent status alongside the National Security Advisor."

Bossert will focus on protecting the country from counterterrorism threats while Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor, will focus on "international security challenges."

"Tom brings enormous depth and breadth of knowledge and experience to protecting the homeland to our senior White House team," Trump said in the statement.

"He has a handle on the complexity of homeland security, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity challenges. He will be an invaluable asset to our Administration."

The elevation of Bossert gives the Trump national security staff a White House veteran. While Flynn has no White House experience, incoming-deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland has worked in three administrations.

The two men met at Trump's Florida estate last week as Trump continues to fill out his staff. While the administration began rolling out cabinet picks in the early portion of the transition, most of the more recent appointments have been Trump's White House staff.
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MSN News: Obama's Last Days - Aiding Trump Transition But Erecting Policy Roadblocks

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WASHINGTON — Only two days after the election, President Obama sat by President-elect Donald J. Trump’s side in the Oval Office and declared that the No. 1 priority in his last days in the White House would be ensuring a smooth transition of power.

What Mr. Obama did not say was that he also intended to set up as many policy and ideological roadblocks as possible before Mr. Trump takes his oath of office on Jan. 20.

With less than three weeks before the Obama White House is history, making way for a new administration with radically different priorities, the president is using every power at his disposal to cement his legacy and establish his priorities as the law of the land.
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MSN News: Dems Call For Sessions To Recuse Himself From Confirmation Vote

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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is calling on Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to recuse himself from voting on his own confirmation for attorney general, following a report about information omitted from a questionnaire that he submitted.

"Jeff Sessions has fiercely argued in the past that omitting information isn't just wrong, that it may also be illegal," said DNC spokesman Adam Hodge in a statement. "So what does he do once he's nominated to be the Attorney General? He omits information from his dark past, particularly when he was deemed too racist to be a federal judge."

"Based on his own reasoning, and in keeping with Senate tradition, Sessions must recuse himself from voting on his own nomination."

The statement was issued in response to a Huffington Post report about advocacy groups criticizing Sessions for leaving gaps in a questionnaire about his past that he submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he is a member.

A group of liberal nonprofits, including the Alliance for Justice and People for the American Way, issued a report listing examples of public statements that Sessions did not include in his questionnaire.

Huffington Post noted that that Sessions had been an outspoken critic of some of President Obama's nominees for leaving out details in their own questionnaires.

"I want to share a concern that I do have about Judge Sotomayor's answers to the Senate Judiciary standard questionnaire," he said in June 2009 during a hearing on then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

"It is still incomplete. I know the administration was very proud to dump a lot of records out in what they call 'record time,' but here, two weeks later, we still have some serious gaps in those answers to the committee questions."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a member of the judiciary panel, said earlier this month that Sessions's submission appeared "incomplete," though she called for more time to review his questionnaire.

"I am sure you would agree that staff must have sufficient time to do the due diligence on any nominee for this vital position-and this due diligence will likely take longer than the review for recent, prior nominees who had less materials to analyze," Feinstein wrote in a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

"Second, despite being voluminous, Senator Sessions' production appears to have been put together in haste and is, on its face, incomplete," she added.
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BBC News: Donald Trump makes top Republican fear environmental future

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A leading US Republican says she fears for the future of her seven grandchildren with Donald Trump in the White House.

Christine Todd Whitman, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under George W Bush, accused Mr Trump of ignoring compelling science. And she warned that his threat to scrap climate protection policies puts the world's future at risk.
Trump supporters say rules on climate and energy are stifling business.

But Ms Todd Whitman says the US must find ways of promoting business without unduly harming the planet.

Details of Mr Trump's climate policy are not yet clear, but his team have talked about boosting coal, opening new oil pipelines, and allowing mining on public wilderness or drilling in the Arctic.

On the political side, they have suggested quitting the global climate deal, scrapping President Obama's clean power plan, and dismantling the US energy department along with the EPA itself.
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