WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
1:30 p.m.
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says he’ll wait until Donald Trump becomes president before looking at potential conflicts of interest involving Trump’s business empire.
Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz (CHAY’-fits) of Utah says it’s too early for lawmakers to look into Trump’s financial ties with foreign businesses and governments, or to deal with other questions.
Democrats have called for investigations into Trump’s vast holdings, as well as his lease with the federal government for a luxury hotel near the White House.
Chaffetz says Trump “needs time to get his affairs in order. When he becomes the president we’ll start providing some oversight of that.”
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1:15 p.m.
Indiana is offering Carrier $7 million in incentives to keep some jobs in Indiana that the company had planned to shift to Mexico.
A company spokesman, Seth Martin, says the offer was made to the air conditioning and furnace maker after negotiations with President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence plan to announce the deal in Indianapolis later Thursday.
State economic development officials could not immediately be reached for comment to confirm the figure.
The Associated Press previously reported the deal will involve keeping about 800 union positions in Indianapolis that were to be outsourced.
Trump made Carrier’s plans to shutter the Indianapolis plant a central issue of his campaign. He repeatedly railed against the company for its plans to move production to Mexico.
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12:50 p.m.
The congressman named by Donald Trump to oversee the country’s health care system would also have an impact on another major issue – immigration.
It’s an area where Georgia Republican Tom Price has been at odds with the Obama administration.
If Price is confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, he would head an office responsible for both resettling refugees in the United States and caring for immigrant children caught trying to cross the border on their own.
The five-term lawmaker has joined his Republican colleagues in objecting to Obama’s immigration enforcement policies, including those at the border. Price co-sponsored a bill that sought to let states block Syrian refugees from settling in their communities.
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10:45 a.m.
Donald Trump’s transition team says the incoming president will meet on Friday with North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (HYT’-kamp), a Democrat up for re-election in 2018.
Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence plan to talk with Heitkamp at Trump Tower in New York. Trump won Heitkamp’s home state with an overwhelming majority in the presidential election.
Trump spokesman Jason Miller says Heitkamp “comes very highly recommended, very highly qualified as a proven leader and would be an asset in any role or capacity.”
Heitkamp says in a statement she’s appreciative of the meeting and says that “whatever job I do, I hope to work with the president-elect” and her colleagues in Congress to help North Dakota.