1 big thing: Trump’s creators & destroyers

Think of President-elect Trump’s top Cabinet and West Wing officials in two big buckets, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a “Behind the Curtain” column:

The Creators are charged with stoking a booming, AI-enabled economy, including a low jobless rate — the “golden age of America” that Trump promised after he won.
The Destroyers are the more controversial picks — wired to disrupt existing institutions, and acting on smoldering grievances against the organizations they’ve been picked to lead.

Part 2: Trump feeling “unassailable”
3. ? Mitch’s preemptive strike
4. ? Eric Schmidt’s AI warning
5. ? Scoop: Trump’s bipartisan push
6. ?? Ambassador Rahm Emanuel’s curtain call
7. ? House hunting gets political

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