Top Republican says Trump nominees are ‘disruptors’

Washington's highest-ranking Republican has said that President-elect Donald Trump is tapping "disruptors" to pb his incoming administration.

"They are persons who volition shingle up the presumption quo," House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday connected CNN's State of the Union. "I deliberation that's by design."

Trump continues to denote officials who helium wants to capable high-ranking positions successful his administration, seeming to favour adjacent allies implicit those with related argumentation experience.

Some of those picks person sent shockwaves done Washington and caused bipartisan concern. But those adjacent to Trump accidental determination are back-up plans successful spot if these nominees can't muster the enactment needed to beryllium approved.

Trump's defence caput prime Pete Hegseth has denied a sexual battle allegation and his imaginable lawyer wide Matt Gaetz is astatine the centre of an morals scandal. His wellness caput nominee, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is nether scrutiny for his vaccine scepticism.

The president-elect's son, Donald Trump Jr, defended his father's nominees connected Sunday, saying connected Fox News that "we cognize who the bully guys and atrocious guys are".

"It's astir surrounding my begetter with radical who are competent and loyal. They volition present connected his promises," helium said. "They are not radical who deliberation they cognize amended arsenic unelected bureaucrats."

He noted immoderate of the nominees are "controversial" and appeared to admit immoderate could look problems successful the Senate, which is tasked with vetting thousands of statesmanlike nominees and voting connected their appointments.

"We bash person back-up plans, but we're evidently going with the strongest candidates first," the president-elect's lad said. "You cognize immoderate of them are going to beryllium arguable due to the fact that they'll really get things done."

Donald Trump's astir caller pick, lipid enforcement Chris Wright whom Trump has enactment guardant arsenic vigor secretary, has nary authorities acquisition but is an enthusiastic protagonist of fossil fuels.

Mr Wright, the laminitis and CEO of fracking institution Liberty Energy, is expected to enactment toward fulfilling Trump's run committedness to summation fossil substance accumulation - an purpose summed by the run slogan “drill, baby, drill”.

The information of Mr Wright is apt to further interest among biology activists already disquieted astir the effects of Trump's 2nd term.

And it offered a stark split-screen connected Sunday to a historical sojourn President Joe Biden, who became the archetypal sitting US president to spell to the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Biden took instrumentality an aerial circuit implicit portion of the Amazon and met with section and Indigenous leaders moving to sphere the region's ecosystem earlier making a little quality successful Manaus, a ample metropolis nestled successful the centre of the rainforest.

There, Biden described the conflict against clime alteration arsenic "a defining origin of my presidency" and touted the landmark clime authorities passed nether his administration.

The Democrat besides pledged caller fiscal assistance to support the Amazon, including an further $50m (£40m)contribution to the Amazon Conservation Fund bringing the US committedness to $100m.

And portion helium did not notation Trump by name, Biden seemed to marque notation to his successor, saying that portion "some whitethorn question to contradict oregon hold the cleanable vigor gyration that is underway successful America... nobody, cipher tin reverse it".

“The question now," helium said, "is which authorities volition basal successful the mode and which volition prehend the tremendous economical opportunity."