{"id":2786,"date":"2024-11-22T13:53:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T13:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-bondi-pick-means-more-scrutiny-on-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T13:53:40","slug":"what-were-watching-bondi-pick-means-more-scrutiny-on-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-bondi-pick-means-more-scrutiny-on-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Bondi pick means more scrutiny on Hegseth"},"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>Matt Gaetz\u2019s abrupt withdrawal of his bid to be attorney general on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/21\/trump-taps-project-2025-authors-administration-00191047\">could be bad news<\/a> for another one of Trump\u2019s picks: Pete Hegseth.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Donald Trump spent his presidential campaign running from Project 2025, and now he\u2019s using it to stock his White House and administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/21\/trump-taps-project-2025-authors-administration-00191047\">by tapping nearly a half-dozen Project 2025 authors and contributors<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2016 comments resurfaced by BLN, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u2014 Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/21\/congress\/rfk-jr-trump-hitler-00190944\">compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and disparaged his supporters on his podcast<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>While Trump\u2019s new choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, might not be a household name, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/22\/trump-pam-bondi-attorney-general-loyalty-00191104\">she has rallied behind the president-elect when he needed legal help<\/a>, including after his 2020 election loss.<\/li>\n<li>Current and former Defense Department officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/22\/hegseth-sexual-assault-allegations-pentagon-reactions-00191058\">are worried about how Pete Hegseth would treat women in the military<\/a>.<\/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>Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/21\/pam-bondi-attorney-general-trump-00189456\">was chosen Thursday to be the nation\u2019s top law enforcement official<\/a> by Trump just hours after Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration in the face of Senate opposition.<\/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 Matt Gaetz\u2019s abrupt withdrawal of his bid to be attorney general on Thursday could be bad news for another one of Trump\u2019s picks: Pete Hegseth.\u00a0 Donald Trump spent his presidential campaign running from Project 2025, and now he\u2019s using it to stock his [&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-2786","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\/2786","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=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}