Trump news live: President-elect makes cabinet picks with Republicans on cusp of ‘trifecta’

Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey $1 million to help her in her failed presidential bid that cost a whopping $1.2 billion.

Winfrey’s Harpo Productions received $1 million from Harris’ campaign on Oct. 15 after Winfrey hosted a star-studded event for the vice president in September, the Washington Examiner reports.

Winfrey also participated in the Democrat’s final campaign rally in Philadelphia the night before Election Day.

The legendary talk show host isn’t the only entertainer who received money from the vice president in hopes of helping his presidential campaign.

Harris reportedly spent six figures to build the set for her October appearance on the hit podcast ‘Call Her Daddy,’ where she sat down with the show’s host Alex Cooper.

In total, Harris’ campaign spent $1.2 billion on the race, while Trump’s campaign spent $750 million, according to a Financial Times analysis.

Katelyn Caralle, US Senior Political Reporter

There are still 18 races left to call in the 2024 U.S. House elections.

As things stand Monday morning, Republicans so far hold 214 seats and Democrats 203, according to the Associated Press.

To win a majority, a party needs 218 seats in the lower house out of 435 for the 119th Congress that begins in January 2025.

This means the Republican Party only needs four more seats to secure its majority and give President-elect Donald Trump a Republican trifecta.

The chart above does not reflect the updated top House seat AP called for Republicans as of Monday morning.

Donald Trump announced Sunday night that his former ICE director, Tom Homan, would serve as “border czar” to oversee the largest deportation of immigrants in US history.

The president-elect, 78, said on Truth Social that Homan would oversee the country’s borders in the incoming administration just days after his landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.

‘I am pleased to announce that former ICE director and border control stalwart Tom Homan will join the Trump Administration, in charge of our nation’s borders (“The Border Czar”),’ Trump posted on his social network Truth. Social.

“I have known Tom for a long time and there is no one better to police and control our borders.”

It comes after Homan said Trump will use the US military to arrest and deport “the worst of the worst” illegal immigrants in an unprecedented crackdown.

Homan said the estimated 20 million people residing illegally in the United States would be the target of this unprecedented campaign. “Bottom line: If you come to the country illegally, you’re not off the table,” he added.

President-elect Donald Trump has offered the position of US ambassador to the United Nations to Elise Stefanik.

The House Republican and ally of the president accepted the UN position after it was offered to him on Sunday, according to a report.

‘I am honored to appoint President Elise Stefanik to my Cabinet as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. “Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, smart America First fighter,” Trump told the New York Post.

The decision to choose Stefanik appeared to be a snub to Haley, who did not appear on the campaign trail for him despite repeatedly stating that she was “on hold.”

Stefanik had appeared at Trump’s now infamous rally inside Madison Square Garden last month as the race for the White House intensified.

By Katelyn Caralle, US Senior Political Reporter

Members of Donald Trump’s inner circle head to Sin City to celebrate his victory in the 2024 presidential election.

The president-elect’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and new White House chief of staff Susie Wiles will join the party, a person familiar with the moves told DailyMail.com this week.

The individual said Trump ‘could’ also head to Las Vegas, just two days before his meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House and a week after his historic victory in blue-leaning Nevada.