Trump Named Person of the Year, Congress Debates Budget Stopgap and More You Missed In Politics Today

It’s difficult to stay up-to-date on what’s happening in this country and to break through the clutter, so we’re here to make it easier. Here’s what we at Countable are reading today:

1. "2016 Person of the Year Donald Trump"

TIME Magazine named President-Elect Donald Trump as its Person of the Year for 2016. Trump joins Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama as the only presidents to be named Person of the Year in the year they were first elected.

Read more at TIME.

2. "Congress poised to pass bill to fund government, boost defense spending"

"Congress is poised to pass a bill this week to fund the government through April, boost defense spending, provide aid to flood-ravaged states and to the lead-poisoned residents of Flint, Mich., and reimburse New York City for a fraction of the cost of protecting President-elect Donald Trump."

"The new legislation unveiled late Tuesday would fund the government at an annual rate of $1.07 trillion through April 28, leaving it to Trump and the new Congress to approve another spending bill in the spring to keep federal agencies running through September, the end of the 2017 fiscal year."

Read more at USA Today.

3. "Ryan: Trump should handle conflicts ‘however he wants to’"

"House Speaker Paul Ryan is unbothered by President-elect Donald Trump’s business conflicts."

""This is not what I’m concerned about in Congress,” Ryan said Wednesday during an interview on CNBC. “I have every bit of confidence he’s going to get himself right with moving from being the business guy that he is to the president he’s going to become.””

Read more at Politico.

4. "Poll: Majority Find Major Media Outlets Credible"

"Despite the proliferation of coverage of fake news and historically low opinion of the media, a majority of adults think most cable news networks and major newspapers are credible, according to a Morning Consult poll."

Read more at Morning Consult.

5. "Linda McMahon picked to be Small Business administrator"

"President-elect Donald Trump picked Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, to serve as the administrator of the Small Business Administration, his transition announced Wednesday."

""Linda has a tremendous background and is widely recognized as one of the country’s top female executives advising businesses around the globe,” Trump said in a statement. “She helped grow WWE from a modest 13-person operation to a publicly traded global enterprise with more than 800 employees in offices worldwide.””

Read more at CNN.

— Eric Revell

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