{"id":2745,"date":"2024-11-21T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-hegseth-heads-to-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:49:11","slug":"what-were-watching-hegseth-heads-to-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-hegseth-heads-to-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Hegseth heads to Blue Light News"},"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>At least three of Donald Trump\u2019s nominees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/20\/trump-cabinet-picks-sexual-misconduct-allegations-scandal-00190667\"><u>will test whether the president-elect\u2019s ability to withstand sexual misconduct allegations<\/u><\/a> is transferable. The current moment has been shaped by #MeToo but in some of the exact opposite ways that movement could have imagined roughly seven years ago.<\/li>\n<li>The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/20\/congress\/ethics-panel-does-not-agree-to-release-gaetz-report-00190655\"><u>did not agree to release<\/u><\/a> the long-anticipated report into Matt Gaetz but members are expected to meet again next month. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/20\/house-ethics-punt-gaetz-report-chaos-00190801\"><u>Democrats are infuriated<\/u><\/a> and argue the committee is dragging out the process, while Republicans remain furious that Gaetz put them in this position.<\/li>\n<li>There are a handful of GOP senators who could reject some of Trump\u2019s picks for top Cabinet positions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/11\/21\/gop-lame-duck-senators-trump-cabinet-picks-00190742\"><u>Jonathan Martin breaks down who they are in his latest column<\/u><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is set to visit Capitol Hill Thursday to meet with Republican Senators after police records <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/11\/21\/new-details-jolt-hegseth-confirmation-fight-00190829\"><u>revealed new details<\/u><\/a> Thursday about the sexual assault allegation against him<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Mehmet Oz seems to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/20\/dr-oz-senate-reaction-fetterman-00190662\"><u>be drawing more enthusiasm<\/u><\/a> from Senate Republicans to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/20\/nye-rfk-jr-has-lost-his-way-00190748\"><u>than Trump\u2019s selection to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr<\/u><\/a>. Several Republicans told Blue Light News that Oz is \u201cwell respected\u201d and that his nomination is a \u201cgreat opportunity.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>With Trump tapping Linda McMahon as his choice for Education Secretary, some are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/20\/linda-mcmahon-betsy-devos-trump-education-secretary-00190751\"><u>seeing similarities to the President-elect\u2019s last pick for that job, Betsy Devos<\/u><\/a>.<\/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>Labor<\/li>\n<li>HUD<\/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 At least three of Donald Trump\u2019s nominees will test whether the president-elect\u2019s ability to withstand sexual misconduct allegations is transferable. The current moment has been shaped by #MeToo but in some of the exact opposite ways that movement could have imagined roughly seven [&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-2745","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\/2745","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=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}