Despite Trump’s almost 3 million vote deficit to Hillary Clinton on Election Day, he won the Electoral College. On Monday, the 538 electors met to cast their ballots, and Trump prevailed. Only two Republican electors voted against Trump, both from Texas. In fact, more “faithless electors” appeared on the Democratic side, where Democratic electors in Washington, Minnesota, Maine, Hawaii and Colorado did not vote for Clinton.

The Trump universe is putting together a political nonprofit to help Trump enact his political agenda. Last Wednesday, the top brass of the Trump campaign met to discuss who will run the new entity. According to reports, a rift has been growing between Brad Parscale, Trump’s top data operative, and Rebekah Mercer, Trump’s most influential big-money head.

A security delegation from Israel, which included Yossi Cohen, the head of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, met with Donald Trump and his team. Trump was briefed on security issues in the Mideast, including the Iranian nuclear deal, the Syrian civil war, terror threats and the Palestinian issue.

While Trump will likely enter the office of president with among the lowest approval ratings in history, as well as losing the popular vote by almost 3 million, about half of Americans approve of the way he has handled the transition process. Still, a strong 41% still disapprove of his transition.

Kara Swisher at Recode has the inside scoop on Donald Trump’s meeting with tech leaders this week. Among other topics, “Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella brought up perhaps the most thorny issue: Immigration and how the government can help tech with things like H-1B visas to keep and bring in more talent,” Swisher reports. “Nadella pointed out that much of the company’s spending on research and development was in the U.S., even if 50 percent of the sales were elsewhere, so that immigration would benefit those here.”

Potential 2020 presidential candidates for the Democratic party Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker have upped their foreign-policy chops with new Senate committee assignments. Booker will take a seat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Warren is joining the Armed Services Committee.

In an interview aired by NPR on Friday, President Obama said: “I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections … we need to take action … And we will -- at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be.”

Twitter was a noticeable omission from the tech meeting held in Trump Tower on Wednesday. Twitter was notified that it was “bounced” from the meeting, and Trump adviser Sean Spicer said “the conference table was only so big.” A source for Politico has a different explanation: Twitter’s rejection of the #CrookedHillary emoji was the main reason for the exclusion.

The never-Trump group of Republicans have gone silent, with Libertarians now taking up the mantle of resistance. Sen. Rand Paul is one of the strongest opponents to many of Trump’s administration picks. His steadfastness is giving the anti-Trump wing of the Republicans party new life.

One of the many issues on which Republicans and Democrats differ greatly is regulation. Conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing Donald Trump to remove regulations on the FDA and companies like Uber, and reject regulations aimed at protecting the climate.