Nick Wadhams

Elon Musk joined a call between President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, highlighting the billionaire entrepreneur’s influence within the incoming U.S. administration.

Elon Musk joined a call between President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, highlighting the billionaire entrepreneur's influence within the incoming U.S. administration.

President-elect Donald Trump has only begun to fill out the ranks of his incoming administration. His first choices confirm that his son Donald Jr. and the former Fox TV personality Tucker Carlson have emerged as major influences over his picks.

President-elect Donald Trump has only begun to fill out the ranks of his incoming administration. His first choices confirm that his son Donald Jr. and the former Fox TV personality Tucker Carlson have emerged as major influences over his picks.

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, economic policy and national security editor Nick Wadhams looks at who the president-elect is listening. Email our editors here.

President-elect Donald Trump has only begun to fill out the ranks of his incoming administration.

Biden maintains media silence with farewell South America trip Allies brace for what one calls ‘potential US disengagement'

Four years ago, President Joe Biden declared "America's back" and told his fellow world leaders that Donald Trump had been an aberration.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rebuked his potential successor for his opposition to women serving in combat roles, saying it would be wrong and counterproductive to undo decades of progress.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rebuked his potential successor for his opposition to women serving in combat roles, saying it would be wrong and counterproductive to undo decades of progress.