All of the officers were involved in the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which independent reviews have blamed on both the Trump and Biden administrations.

It’s a lot of lost money for the economy,” said Marcela Díaz, executive director of the immigrant workers’ rights organization Somos Un Pueblo Unido.

Legal experts say that Trump's choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, signals the president-elect's determination to tightly control the DOJ and prosecute adversaries.

Rob Subbaraman is preparing for his second Trump presidency with a new accessory in his economist toolkit: the head of global markets research at Nomura Holdings Inc. has downloaded Truth Social, the President-elect’s conservative social media platform.

Support for deporting undocumented immigrants has grown since Donald Trump was last in office, a review of recent polling finds – as have nativist sentiments more broadly. But the level of public backing for mass deportation varies significantly depending on the framing of the question,

Trump's defence secretary pick Pete Hegseth has denied a sexual assault allegation and his potential attorney general Matt Gaetz is at the centre of an ethics scandal. His health secretary nominee, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is under scrutiny for his vaccine scepticism.

Kennedy has frequently called out McDonald’s french fries for being made with what he believes are harmful ingredients.

Pledge: Trump has repeatedly said he will close the federal Department of Education, sending authority over education back to the states and saving taxpayer dollars.

A detailed memo sent to the Trump transition team claims the incident occurred when Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary, spoke in Monterey, Calif., in 2017.