Trump picks former acting attorney general as US envoy to NATO

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : "Linda will use her decades of leadership experience, and deep understanding of both education and business, to empower the next generation of American students and workers and make America number one in education in the world," Trump said in a statement.
56% : In a statement, Trump described Whitaker, 55, as "a strong warrior and loyal patriot" who "will ensure the United States' interests are advanced and defended" and "strengthen relationships with our NATO allies and stand firm in the face of threats to peace and stability.
52% : Additionally, the president-elect picked Dr. Mehmet Oz, a longtime television show host, as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that oversees the government's two key health insurance programs for older Americans and impoverished people.
51% : Whitaker held the acting attorney general position for several months without Senate confirmation, until William Barr was confirmed as attorney general in February 2019.Other appointmentsTrump has been making new top appointments to his nascent administration on an almost daily basis.
46% : Late Tuesday, he named Linda McMahon as his nominee to lead the Education Department, even though Trump and some Republican lawmakers want to abolish the agency and hand over most education policy decisions and much of the current federal funding to state and local control.
41% : "Also on Tuesday, Trump announced he'd nominate Wall Street financier Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary in his new administration.
39% : "Trump said that "one of the presidents of a big country" at one point asked him whether the U.S. would still defend the country if they were invaded by Russia even if they "don't pay.
37% : During his first administration, Trump goaded other NATO countries that did not meet the alliance's military spending goal: 2% of their national economic output.
32% : They couldn't believe the answer.""No, I would not protect you," Trump recalled saying to that president.
28% : U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday named Matt Whitaker, a former acting attorney general from his first presidency, as the U.S. ambassador to NATO, the cornerstone Western military alliance whose member countries Trump has criticized for not spending enough money on defense.
28% : Trump backed Oz's failed attempt to win a Senate seat in Pennsylvania in 2022.
27% : During his presidency, Trump assailed the countries who were not spending enough on defense, saying they were in arrears in their "dues" to NATO.
24% : "NATO was busted until I came along," Trump said at a political rally earlier this year.
18% : Whitaker has been a vocal critic of the two federal criminal cases brought against Trump that are now likely to be erased as he assumes power again on January 20.

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