President-elect Donald Trump has a one-word answer to a question about whether he's having second thoughts about picking former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to be attorney general.

"No," the 78-year-old told reporters in Texas, where he had traveled to watch a SpaceX rocket launch alongside allies including the company's leader, Elon Musk.

Gaetz, 42, resigned his seat last week, hours after Trump announced his intent to nominate him to lead the Justice Department.

The Floridian is currently sweating the possible release of a report by the House Committee on Ethics into allegations of sexual misconduct and illegal drug use, among other transgressions.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) argued Tuesday that Congress should air all its dirty laundry out in public if the House Ethics Committee report into allegations of sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz is to be released.

“For my Republican colleagues in the House and Senate, If we are going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it ALL out there for the American people to see,” the Georgia Republican wrote on X. 

“Yes..all the ethics reports and claims including the one I filed," Greene continued. 

It’s unclear which member of Congress Greene claims to have filed an ethics complaint against, but last December she accused Rep. Richard McCormick (R-Ga.) of getting “physically aggressive” with her. 

McCormick, at the time, claimed he was trying to “encourage” the congresswoman “by making a friendly gesture,” and said he apologized when it was not well received. 

Greene also demanded for “sexual harassment and assault claims that were secretly settled” to be made public, as well as “the entire Jeffrey Epstein files, tapes, recordings, witness interviews.”

“But not just those, there’s more, Epstein wasn’t/isn’t the only asset,” she continued.

“If we’re going to dance, let’s all dance in the sunlight. I’ll make sure we do,” Greene wrote. 

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he was picking Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Trump said in a statement that Oz, who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate two years ago, would work closely with Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.”

“Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country,” added Trump, 78. “He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget.”

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President-elect Donald Trump sent a message to Republican senators — hold the line on judges.

“The Democrats are trying to stack the Courts with Radical Left Judges on their way out the door,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Republican Senators need to Show Up and Hold the Line — No more Judges confirmed before Inauguration Day!”

Trump’s message to Republican senators comes after Embry J. Kidd was confirmed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, sparking fury from conservatives. Kidd was confirmed by a margin of 49-45, with several Republican senators absent from the proceeding.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to keep up the rapid pace of appointments ahead of Trump’s inauguration and the Republicans reclaiming their majority on Jan 3. 

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) expressed support for Trump’s approach to stop “horrible” Biden appointed judges. 

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance let slip that Trump is interviewing candidates to take over the FBI before the current director's term is up during a heated X exchange over Biden judicial nominee confirmations.

The revelation was buried in a response to a now-deleted post by Steve Bannon's War Room CFO Grace Chong, who had blasted the Ohio senator for missing a vote where a controversial Biden judicial appointee, Embry J. Kidd, had been confirmed.

"You guys better show up and do your one fricken job!! @JDVance @marcorubio," Chong posted.

Vance shot back that Chong is a "mouth breathing imbecile" before going on to reveal that he and Trump were meeting with potential candidates to lead the bureau.

"When this 11th Circuit vote happened, I was meeting with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI Director. I tend to think it's more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45," Vance posted.

The agency is currently headed by Christopher Wray, whose ten-year term doesn't expire until 2027. Wray was installed in the position by Trump in 2017, but has since invoked the president-elect's wrath over what he sees as political investigations against him, such as the infamous Mar-a-Lago raid.

In July, Wray questioned whether Trump had truly been struck by a bullet at the Butler Pa. rally where a would-be assassin shot him in the ear.

Vance has since deleted the post.

Vice President-elect JD Vance will accompany controversial Trump cabinet picks Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth on meetings with Republican Senators crucial to their confirmation process, according to CNN reporter Alayna Treene.

The meetings come as the pair's confirmation faces significant obstacles over past allegations of sexual misconduct.

Gaetz, who resigned from Congress days before the House ethics committee was set to vote on releasing a probe they conducted on him, is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl, a charge he vehemently denies. The DOJ investigated the ex-Florida congressman but ultimately did not bring charges.

Hegseth, 44, an Army veteran and former Fox News host with two bronze stars, claims he was blackmailed into paying off a woman as part of a non-disclosure agreement after she accused him of rape.

“He was totally innocent. He did nothing wrong here,” Hegseth's lawyer Timothy Parlatore told The Post.

President-elect Donald Trump will name Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, to the post of commerce secretary, a source familiar with the matter told The Post Tuesday.

Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, had been widely rumored as a contender for the more prestigious post of treasury secretary, but appeared to have lost momentum in recent days.

The 63-year-old's pending nomination was first reported by Punchbowl News.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he will nominate former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy to be secretary of transportation.

The choice of Duffy, 53, is the second time Trump, 78, has raided the Fox News talent stable to help staff his administration.

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President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he feels he has an “obligation to be open and available” to the press — and insisted he is “not looking for retribution” despite what his harshest critics say.

In another sign that his second non-consecutive term will depart dramatically from the first, Trump, 78, told Fox News Digital in an interview that he has “an obligation to the American public, and to our country itself, to be open and available to the press.”

“I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly, or even badly beyond comprehension,” he added of his apparently magnanimous turn.

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Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that whoever he picks to replace Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) must have a “proven record of results” — in response to a push for Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump to be appointed to the seat.

“Florida deserves a Senator who will help President[-elect Donald] Trump deliver on his election mandate, be strong on immigration and border security, take on the entrenched bureaucracy and administrative state, reverse the nation’s fiscal decline, be animated by conservative principles, and has a proven record of results,” DeSantis, 46, wrote in a statement on X.

Trump tapped Rubio to serve as his secretary of state last week. With the 53-year-old expected to cruise to confirmation, Rubio will likely resign from the Senate sometime before Trump, 78, is sworn in Jan. 20.

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President-elect Donald Trump has wasted no time staffing his incoming administration, announcing a flurry of picks since his Nov. 5 election.

With intense jockeying taking place at the highest levels of MAGA World, and several key positions yet to be announced, here’s a look at who’s been picked so far, and who might be.

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President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday he would declare a “national emergency” to deport illegal migrants using “military assets” once he steps back into office early next year.

Trump made the statement on Truth Social, responding “TRUE!!!” to a post from Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton citing reports he would do so.

“GOOD NEWS: Reports are the incoming @RealDonaldTrump administration prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Fitton wrote on the social media platform.

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