United by loyalty, Trump's new team members have competing agendas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : By Natalie Sherman, BBC business reporter, New YorkWho: Elon Musk, Vivek RamaswamyTheir agenda: Trump has named the world's richest person, Elon Musk, to lead a cost-cutting effort dubbed the "Department of Government Efficiency".
52% : The two men are among the loudest and flashiest tech bros, a group that swung towards Trump this year, seeking a champion to disavow "woke" political correctness and embrace a libertarian vision of small government, low taxes and light regulation.
52% : What it tells us: While Trump often signals his own hawkish economic views on China, he has also vacillated - which could spark tensions with his top foreign policy team.
44% : "What it tells us: The appointments are an acknowledgment of the help Trump got on the campaign trail from Ramaswamy and Musk, the latter of whom personally ploughed more than $100m into the campaign.
43% : She is a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who switched parties to support Trump.
42% : He has promised to leave Social Security and Medicare - two of the biggest areas of government spending - untouched, which could make cost-cutting difficult.
38% : The possibility of increased deportations and workplace raids, however, could put Trump on a collision course with Democratic-leaning states and jurisdictions that may decide to push back or not co-operate.
26% : Trump, who ran up budget deficits during his first term, has shown little commitment to cutting spending.
24% : What this tells us: Like Trump, Gaetz, Gabbard and Kennedy are aggressive challengers of the status quo.
23% : In his first term, Trump triggered a trade war with Beijing (attempts to de-escalate this failed amid the pandemic) and relations slumped further when he labelled Covid the "Chinese Virus".

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