From CNN Breaking News@VERT to no-reply@siteservices.cnn.com on Wed Jan 11 09:43:37 2017
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped David Shulkin to head the Department of Veterans Affairs[1], he announced during his news conference.
"One of the commitments I've made is that we're going to straighten out the whole situation for our veterans," Trump said.
The announcement means Trump has chosen nominees for 20 of his 21 Cabinet posts[2] -- with the position of secretary of agriculture left to fill.
The President-elect also said at his news conference[3] that he had been looking at the list of 20 potential Supreme Court nominees he had proposed to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia. He said he would announce his decision within two weeks of taking office.
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