{"id":2555,"date":"2024-11-16T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-last-minute-jockeying-to-become-trumps-treasury-secretary-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:22:18","slug":"the-last-minute-jockeying-to-become-trumps-treasury-secretary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-last-minute-jockeying-to-become-trumps-treasury-secretary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The last-minute jockeying to become Trump&#8217;s Treasury secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision over who will be tapped to head Treasury has been hung up as Trump&#8217;s transition co-chair Howard Lutnick and hedge fund executive Scott Bessent compete for the president-elect&#8217;s attention, according to three people familiar with the discussions. One major factor that&#8217;s delayed the decision is the amount of control Lutnick has exerted in determining what information flows up to the president-elect&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/15\/congress\/the-last-minute-jockeying-for-treasury-00189887\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision over who will be tapped to head Treasury has been hung up as Trump&#8217;s transition co-chair Howard Lutnick and hedge fund executive Scott Bessent compete for the president-elect&#8217;s attention, according to three people familiar with the discussions. One major factor that&#8217;s delayed the decision is the amount of control Lutnick has exerted in [&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-2555","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\/2555","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=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}