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Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:01 PM
Subject: It's Trump Time now
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Highlights

Trump Time starts now

The first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency will set the tone for the next four to eight years. Described by House Speaker Paul Ryan as a "man of action," Trump plans to hit the ground running with an ambitious reset of American trade policy and sweeping government reforms. An entire new Cabinet, 4,000 hires, and a new Supreme Court justice are coming quickly.

Four ways Trump will keep the inaugural traditions, and four ways he'll break them

Despite the convention-shattering nature of President-elect Trump's path to victory, his inauguration this week promises to be a relatively traditional affair. Not all traditions will live on.

Trump scales back inauguration hoopla, focuses on 'getting to work'

For all the theatrics President-elect Trump has embraced in his campaign and in his life, the ceremonies honoring his inauguration this week will feature traditions, modesty and a focus on the future, planners say. Trump reportedly eager to start governing.

Trump plans for an action-packed Day One in office

For the first two hours after President-elect Trump takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, he will toast his inauguration with a lavish lunch and celebratory parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. But President Trump will probably fill the rest of his first 24 hours in office beginning to demolish his predecessor's legacy, which he has promised to reverse almost completely once he is sworn in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. An active and energetic 24 hours promised.

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Trump's energy team to get grilled

The heavy hitters that President-elect Trump has lined up to lead his energy and environment team are set to go before Congress this week to address major issues from climate change to protecting the chicken-like sage grouse in the West. Moratorium on coal leasing likely to end under Zinke.

Forget 100 days: House Republicans double agenda calendar

With both health insurance and tax reform on deck, House Republicans plan to double the "100-day" timeline that lawmakers have traditionally promised for implementing new agendas. The Trump team is now endorsing the timeline.

Editorial: Tests and quizzes for Betsy DeVos

When Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump's excellent choice for secretary of education, sits at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, she will take fire from Democratic senators armed by teachers unions with talking points defending public education's calamitous status quo. The question during the Trump administration is not "if," but "how" they lose.

Netanyahu and Trump: A brewing bromance?

After Jan. 20, once Donald Trump is sworn into the most powerful office in the world, he may find himself forging his deepest connection with a man President Obama failed to impress: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump has a type, and Bibi just might fit it.

Cyber backers see hope in Kelly nomination

Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee were most eager to hear retired Gen. John Kelly, Donald Trump's nominee to serve as DHS secretary, hit the right notes on the department's cyber role at his Jan. 10 confirmation hearing. It appears the former Southern Command leader came through with flying colors.

Missouri likely to become the next right-to-work state

Within the next few weeks, Missouri likely will become the 28th state to adopt a right-to-work law, as the state legislature is working quickly to get a bill before the new Republican governor, Eric Greitens, who has vowed to sign it. The full House could vote on it next week, and it could pass out of legislature as early as the end of this month. Kentucky adopted the measure already.

Few options for Trump team to prop up Obamacare insurers

Senate Republican leaders are playing down concerns that repealing Obamacare without a replacement would destroy the individual insurance market, pointing out that the incoming Trump administration can help. Once Trump's pick for Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Price, gets confirmed, there are "a lot of things they can do administratively to stabilize the market" for Obamacare exchange customers, said Sen. John Cornyn, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate. Exchange customers make up only 6 percent of the insurance market.

Fiscal hawks want details before they buy into Trump infrastructure plan

President-elect Trump will need to win over the fiscal hawks inside his own party to follow through on one of his most popular campaign promises, a massive investment in the nation's infrastructure. The plan implies a massive expansion of the federal debt.

Top Democrats trust Trump with intelligence

Top House and Senate Democrats said they trust President-elect Trump's administration to safeguard intelligence secrets and they believe American allies should, too. "I have every confidence in our intelligence agencies to protect the information they receive and the sources of that information," California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told the Washington Examiner. A sentiment at odds with many Dems' public statements.

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