{"id":11769,"date":"2025-07-28T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-led-panel-delays-testimony-for-trump-special-counsel-nominee-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:21:07","slug":"senate-gop-led-panel-delays-testimony-for-trump-special-counsel-nominee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-led-panel-delays-testimony-for-trump-special-counsel-nominee-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP-led panel delays testimony for Trump special counsel nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has indefinitely delayed President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick to run an independent watchdog that investigates wrongdoing in the federal government. Paul Ingrassia, the nominee to be special counsel, was scheduled to testify before the panel Thursday but was noticeably absent from the slate of nominees appearing before lawmakers&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/24\/congress\/panel-punts-special-counsel-nom-00473663\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has indefinitely delayed President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick to run an independent watchdog that investigates wrongdoing in the federal government. Paul Ingrassia, the nominee to be special counsel, was scheduled to testify before the panel Thursday but was noticeably absent from the slate of nominees appearing before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}