{"id":16311,"date":"2025-12-05T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-nominations-package-hits-stumbling-block-in-senate-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:20:40","slug":"trump-nominations-package-hits-stumbling-block-in-senate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-nominations-package-hits-stumbling-block-in-senate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump nominations package hits stumbling block in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans hit a temporary stumbling block in their latest effort to confirm dozens of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominees. Democrats blocked Republicans from successfully taking an initial step toward confirming a package of more than 80 nominations because one of the picks doesn&#8217;t qualify to be included: Sara Bailey&#8217;s nomination to be the director of national drug control policy is a senior-level pick requiring individual consideration under the new rules Republicans themselves drafted earlier this year for multinominee confirmation votes&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/04\/congress\/senate-nominations-package-delay-00677016\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans hit a temporary stumbling block in their latest effort to confirm dozens of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominees. Democrats blocked Republicans from successfully taking an initial step toward confirming a package of more than 80 nominations because one of the picks doesn&#8217;t qualify to be included: Sara Bailey&#8217;s nomination to be the director of [&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-16311","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\/16311","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=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}