{"id":2643,"date":"2024-11-19T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-will-the-gaetz-ethics-report-come-out\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:37:43","slug":"what-were-watching-will-the-gaetz-ethics-report-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-will-the-gaetz-ethics-report-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;re watching: Will the Gaetz Ethics report come out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today:<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The House Ethics Committee is under continued pressure to release its report on attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz. Speaker Mike Johnson has said the report should remain under wraps as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/18\/congress\/gaetz-report-blocked-ethics-leak-00190263\">prominent Democrats call for its release<\/a>. The committee is set to meet on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Despite moving quickly to pick a number of top Cabinet positions, President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-money\/2024\/11\/19\/move-fast-and-break-things-just-not-the-treasury-market-00190307\">Donald Trump is hung up on who to pick for Treasury secretary<\/a>. He\u2019s long fixated on stock markets and interest rates, choosing someone who would create great disruption could upset markets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joining Elon Musk at a SpaceX launch in Texas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All eyes are on Gaetz as his nomination hangs in the balance and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/18\/congress\/gop-senators-on-gaetz-ethics-report-00190295\">nearly a dozen GOP senators won\u2019t commit to confirming him<\/a> for attorney general. Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/18\/congress\/top-ethics-dem-wants-gaetz-report-out-00190256\">said Monday she wants her panel\u2019s report<\/a> on Gaetz to be released to the public.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Democratic-aligned health care advocacy groups launched a \u201cStop RFK War Room\u201d effort <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/18\/congress\/health-groups-aim-to-stop-rfk-00190215\">to fight Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s nomination to be HHS secretary<\/a>. The groups plan to convince swing GOP senators to oppose his nomination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udcddICYMI: Here are the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2024\/trump-cabinet-picks-2025-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>latest Cabinet picks<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sean Duffy, Fox News contributor and former reality TV star, was nominated as Transportation Secretary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u23f1\ufe0fWhat Cabinet secretary announcements are we still waiting on?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treasury<\/li>\n<li>Agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Commerce<\/li>\n<li>Labor<\/li>\n<li>HUD<\/li>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Trade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today: \u00a0\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching The House Ethics Committee is under continued pressure to release its report on attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz. Speaker Mike Johnson has said the report should remain under wraps as prominent Democrats call for its release. The committee is set to meet on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","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=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}