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What we’re watching: Bondi pick means more scrutiny on Hegseth
Here’s what we’re watching in transition world today:
🗓️ What we’re watching
- Matt Gaetz’s abrupt withdrawal of his bid to be attorney general on Thursday could be bad news for another one of Trump’s picks: Pete Hegseth.
- Donald Trump spent his presidential campaign running from Project 2025, and now he’s using it to stock his White House and administration by tapping nearly a half-dozen Project 2025 authors and contributors.
🚨What’s up with the nominees?
- In 2016 comments resurfaced by BLN, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Trump’s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department — compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and disparaged his supporters on his podcast.
- While Trump’s new choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, might not be a household name, she has rallied behind the president-elect when he needed legal help, including after his 2020 election loss.
- Current and former Defense Department officials are worried about how Pete Hegseth would treat women in the military.
📝ICYMI: Here are the latest Cabinet picks
- Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, was chosen Thursday to be the nation’s top law enforcement official by Trump just hours after Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration in the face of Senate opposition.
⏱️What Cabinet secretary announcements are we still waiting on?
- Treasury
- Agriculture
- Labor
- HUD
- Trade