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Donald Trump is expected to announce his Supreme Court nominee at 8 p.m.
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President Trump is his Supreme Court nominee at 8 p.m. The Senate Elaine Chao to be transportation secretary, and three other Cabinet nominees, Betsy DeVos, former Texas Governor Rick Perry, and Representative Ryan Zinke, advanced toward a full Senate vote. Senate Democrats on two of Trump’s Cabinet nominees: Tom Price, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, and the president’s choice to fire acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday night, saying she was “rightfully removed” for refusing to defend Trump’s executive order on immigration. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly in a press conference that Trump’s executive order on immigration was “not a ban on Muslims.”

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