After a busy weekend interviewing job candidates, President-elect Donald Trump prepared Monday to begin filling out his economic and national security teams and outline his emerging White House agenda.
"We've made a couple of deals," Trump told reporters after a weekend of meetings with with no less than 21 job candidates at his golf resort in Bedminster, N.J.
Transition aides said they would release a video Monday in which the president-elect discusses plans and "legislative priorities" for the Trump administration that begins Jan. 20.
Topics include trade, notably Trump's opposition to the now-probably-defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership with Asian nations; energy development and "job-killing" regulations governing shale and clean coal; national security, with an emphasis on cybersecurity; and immigration, including alleged abuse of visa programs to undercut American workers, said transition aide Jason Miller.
Trump has more meetings on Monday, including one with Rick Perry. The former governor of Texas and ex-rival in the Republican primaries has been mentioned for a number of slots in Trump's Cabinet, including the departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, and Agriculture.
The president also met with a fairly prominent De mocrat: U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who backed Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries. A military veteran, Gabbard has been a vocal critic of VA medical services.
Also Monday Trump met with former New Hampshire senator Scott Brown. After the meeting Brown told reporters that he spoke with Trump about being head of the VA.
"He's obviously going to take my application, or interest, under consideration. I'm glad that he called. He's going to obviously meet other folks, and we should know, I would think, probably after thanksgiving," Brown said. "I think I'm the best person, but there are some tremendous people out there and I don't look at it as a competition."
Trump also met with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin who said she was not offered a position but that the meeting was just a start.
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Other Monday meetings include former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a prominent pro-Trump spokesman during the campaign; and former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao (who is married to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell). The president is also scheduled to meet with officials of a border patrol union that endorsed him during the campaign. Trump also is set to have an off-record meeting with television executives and anchors from the major networks.
The Trump team still has some campaign clean-up to do.
The Federal Election Commission on Monday sent a letter to the Trump campaign organization listing pages of "excessive, prohibited, and impermissible" contributions. They came from individuals who made multiple contributions that added up to an excess of legal limits, unregistered organizations, or committees that were unqualified to contribute to presidential candidates.
The president-elect and his ai des are also dealing with questions about how the New York businessman (and his family) should handle their business affairs during his presidency.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who is heading up Trump's transition, has sat in on Trump's job interviews.
The meetings involve "a diverse group of people who come from many different backgrounds who are all lending their opinions and their advice and their counsel and their experience to the president-elect and the vice president-elect and some of whom may end up in his cabinet," Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN.
Trump began announcing his team last week. He tapped retired Gen. Michael Flynn to be national security adviser, and nominated U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., for attorney general and U.S. Rep. Michael Pompeo, R-Kan., for CIA director. He has also named a chief of staff (Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus) and senior adviser (campaign CEO Steve Bannon).
Trump, who also spent part of the weekend on social media, had special praise for one of his candidates for secretary of Defense.
"General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis, who is being considered for Secretary of Defense, was very impressive yesterday," Trump tweeted Sunday. "A true General's General!"
Trump aides also promoted a new poll showing the his popularity has picked up since the election.
According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll[3] of registered voters. 46% of voters now have a very favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of the president-elect. That's up nine points from a similar poll taken right before Election Day on Nov. 8.
Trump's interviews over the weekend included at le ast two secretary of State candidates: Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, and Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City major who became a top Trump surrogate during this year's campaign. Conway also noted that Trump has spoken with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., another possibility for the State Department.
Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, are developing a strategy to cope with the president, vowing to contest disputed nominees or policies.
"On issues where our values are at stake, where the president goes in a divisive direction, where his campaign did before, we'll go against him and with everything we've got," said incoming Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.. on NBC's Meet The Press.
The transition team also announced that Trump plans to spend Thanksgiving at his South Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
Contributing: Eliza Collins
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- ^ Last Video (www.usatoday.com)
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- ^ a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll (www.politico.com)
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