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\nDonald Trump\u2019s Senate allies are racing to defend Tulsi Gabbard, his pick to lead US intelligence services, in what could become the next test of the president-elect\u2019s bid to install provocative nominees \u2014 and of any Republican appetite to stop him. <\/p>\n
Gabbard and another contentious Trump pick \u2014 Pete Hegseth, who has been tapped to lead the Defense Department \u2014 came under sharpened scrutiny Sunday as the spotlight shifted from Matt Gaetz, Trump\u2019s toppled choice to be attorney general.
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\nSenators bracing for confirmation battles over unorthodox Trump Cabinet picks <\/p>\n
Speaking on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth warned of Gabbard: \u201cI think she\u2019s compromised.\u201d The Illinois senator brought up Gabbard\u2019s visit to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2017 and policy positions where she\u2019s appeared to mirror Russian propaganda talking points. <\/p>\n
But Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, speaking to Dana Bash on the same show, said such claims were \u201cridiculous\u201d and \u201coutright dangerous\u201d and called for Duckworth to retract them. <\/p>\n
The extraordinary public debate over whether a president-elect\u2019s pick to oversee US intelligence agencies is a compromised asset is a taste of the massive upheaval that likely awaits next year in his second term. <\/p>\n
Key questions as Thanksgiving week opens
\nBut it\u2019s far from the only question that Trump\u2019s political comeback has sent swirling around Washington heading into the Thanksgiving holiday this week. <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s pick of Hegseth is also facing uncertainty after the release last week of a 2017 police report detailing an alleged sexual assault in California. The former Fox News anchor says the encounter with a woman in California was consensual. He denies wrongdoing and was not charged.
\nOne big unknown is whether Republican senators are again prepared to challenge Trump\u2019s judgment after it quickly became clear that Gaetz wouldn\u2019t have enough of their votes to be confirmed amid his own sexual misconduct allegations, which he denies. One theory is that the incoming GOP majority won\u2019t simply be a rubber stamp for an all-powerful president. But the withdrawal of Gaetz \u2014 who was already widely disliked in Congress \u2014 may leave senators feeling they owe the president-elect on his other highly controversial choices.
\nTrump\u2019s new selection for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is meanwhile being welcomed by many Republicans, suggesting she\u2019ll have an easier path to confirmation than Gaetz. But the former Florida attorney general\u2019s past vow that \u201cprosecutors will be prosecuted\u201d raised expectations that the president-elect plans to press ahead with his promise to use the powers of the Justice Department to seek retribution on those who have investigated him, including over his attempt to steal the 2020 election.
\nA sense that the president-elect is deeply serious about his vow to gut government was bolstered by the choice on Friday night of Russell Vought to again lead the Office of Management and Budget. Vought was one of the key authors of Project 2025 \u2014 the conservative blueprint disavowed by Trump on the campaign trail that involved a defenestrating of the bureaucracy. Trump has already tasked Tesla pioneer Elon Musk and former GOP primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy with drawing up massive government cuts.
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