President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt is a man who has long fought the very agency he is being nominated to lead, reports The Washington Post.

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Hours after Donald Trump promised to kill the Air Force One procurement program, Boeing Chief Executive Dennis A. Muilenburg spoke with the president-elect on Tuesday, promising to work with the new administration and to keep the costs of the program down, reports The Washington Post.

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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday railed against Boeing for the $4 billion cost of a new Air Force One plane, calling for the contract to be cancelled, reports The Hill.

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