The House Ethics Committee will meet later today to discuss whether to publish its dossier on Matt Gaetz, Trump’s controversial candidate for attorney general, after it investigated him in 2022 over allegations he paid for sex with a minor.

It emerged on Tuesday that a hacker reportedly gained access to a computer file that contained damaging testimony made about the former Florida congressman.

The file is said to include testimony from a woman who claimed that she had sex with Gaetz in 2017 when she was 17, as well as corroborating evidence by a second woman who said that she witnessed the incident, a source told The New York Times.

It comes amid ongoing concerns over Gaetz’s nomination.

The 42-year-old previously faced a Justice Department probe into allegations he sex-trafficked a minor but this has since been closed.

The Ethics Committee likewise investigated allegations of sexual misconduct against Gaetz, with pressure now mounting for its report to be released ahead of the upcoming Senate confirmation hearings.

This is how the president-elect and his new tech bro billionaire buddy spent their Tuesday.

The last of yesterday’s major nominees was Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, whom Trump has chosen as his preferred commerce secretary, a gig CNN reporter Kristen Holmes characterised as a “consolation prize” for Lutnick missing out on the chance to be treasury secretary.

Co-chair of Trump’s transition team along with McMahon, Lutnick had been under consideration to lead the Treasury, a role that has still yet to be filled and which is reportedly the cause of much disagreement behind the scenes among Trump’s courtiers at Mar-a-Lago – or even a “knife fight”, as Holmes put it.

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander.

The president-elect also announced yesterday that he had tapped Dr Mehmet Oz, the TV personality and failed Pennsylvania Senate candidate, to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator.

Here’s his statement on that one:

Donald Trump has made a further series of additions to his new cabinet, among the most surprising of which was his move on Tuesday to nominate former WWE boss Linda McMahon as education secretary.

Here’s his statement explaining the choice:

Gustaf Kilander has the full story.

But there is one force that could keep some of his plans at bay — the stock market.

Katie Hawkinson reports from Washington, DC.

Canada‘s point person for U.S-Canada relations said Tuesday she shares U.S. concerns about Mexico serving as a back door for China to import cheaper goods into the North American market as a review of the trade pact known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement looms.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said members of the outgoing administration of U.S. President Joe Biden and supporters and advisers of President-elect Donald Trump have expressed “very grave” concerns to her about the issue and Canada shares them.

Who is still in the running?