{"id":2986,"date":"2024-11-27T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-jostling-for-number-two-at-cia\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:47:30","slug":"what-were-watching-jostling-for-number-two-at-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-jostling-for-number-two-at-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Jostling for number two at CIA"},"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 Trump transition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/26\/trump-signs-transition-agreement-white-house-00191754\">has signed a memorandum of understanding<\/a> with the Biden White House after an unprecedented delay in signing the agreements that lasted weeks after a winner was declared. The signing clears the way for coordination between incoming Trump officials and the federal agencies they will soon take over.<\/li>\n<li>Trump transition advisers and outside allies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/26\/trump-rollback-biden-student-debt-relief-00189841\">have been discussing ways<\/a> to quickly unwind the various Biden-era initiatives that offered new or easier paths to student loan forgiveness for borrowers.<\/li>\n<li>Kash Patel and Cliff Sims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/26\/congress\/kash-patel-cliff-sims-deputy-director-cia-00191715\">are jostling for the deputy director gig at the CIA<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new Blue Light News\/Morning Consult poll shows that the public isn\u2019t very familiar with the people President-elect Donald Trump has chosen for prominent and consequential roles in his second administration, save for a few high-profile celebrities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\">West Wing Playbook reports<\/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 administration picks<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/26\/jamieson-greer-trade-representative-trump-00191181\" target=\"_blank\">picked Jamieson Greer<\/a> to be U.S. trade representative<\/li>\n<li>Vince Haley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/26\/congress\/trumps-domestic-agenda-00191823\">was tapped to lead<\/a> the Domestic Policy Council<\/li>\n<li>Jim O\u2019Neill, a close associate of early Trump backer Peter Thiel, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/26\/trump-picks-jim-oneill-for-no-2-spot-at-hhs-00191827\">tapped for HHS deputy secretary<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/26\/trump-taps-phelan-navy-secretary-00191825\">selected businessperson John Phelan as his nominee<\/a> for Navy secretary<\/li>\n<li>Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University physician and economist known for his controversial views during the Covid-19 pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/26\/trump-picks-nih-critic-jay-bhattacharya-to-lead-the-agency-00191828\">was picked for director of the National Institutes of Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kevin Hassett is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/26\/congress\/trump-economic-adviser-00191831\">heading back to the White House<\/a> as director of the National Economic Council<\/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 Trump transition has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Biden White House after an unprecedented delay in signing the agreements that lasted weeks after a winner was declared. The signing clears the way for coordination between incoming Trump officials and the [&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-2986","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\/2986","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=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}