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Roger Wicker of Mississippi told reporters Monday.<\/li>\n<li>By giving his son Hunter a \u201cfull and unconditional\u201d pardon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/03\/biden-trump-pardon-playbook-00192289\">President Joe Biden has given Trump new rationale<\/a> for even more expansive pardons than those he issued in his first term.<\/li>\n<li>Immigration Hub, a pro-immigration group that was born in 2017 in response to Trump\u2019s first term, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/03\/immigration-hub-pac-catalyze-citizens-00192141\">announced the launch of a new political arm<\/a> to combat the administration\u2019s agenda and help Democrats proactively message on an issue that has long challenged the party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/02\/congress\/trump-in-paris-00192276\">he will attend the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris on Saturday<\/a>. The visit will be his first major outing since winning the election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/12\/03\/two-trump-nominees-face-diverging-fates-00192295\">will be on the Hill today<\/a> meeting with more senators on the Armed Forces Committee, including Republican Sens. Tedd Budd (N.C.), Jim Risch (Idaho) and Eric Schmitt (Mo.).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Few GOP senators are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/02\/congress\/how-gop-senators-view-patel-00192258\">raising early opposition<\/a> to Trump\u2019s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel. Patel has promised to purge the FBI of people he sees as unloyal to Trump and has indicated he would seek a near-total revamp of the agency.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s health care picks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/02\/trump-health-picks-covid-00192011\">speak to a larger sentiment among many Americans<\/a> that health officials got some of the pandemic response wrong \u2014 particularly on school closures and lockdowns. Some experts say creating a binary of who got the pandemic right and wrong is unhelpful.<\/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><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/02\/congress\/choice-for-uk-ambassador-00192248\">plans to nominate investment banker Warren Stephens<\/a> to be his ambassador to the United Kingdom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching An impasse over FBI background checks for President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s Cabinet nominees will likely be resolved \u201cin the next few days,\u201d Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi told reporters Monday. By giving his son Hunter a \u201cfull and unconditional\u201d pardon, President Joe Biden has given Trump new rationale for even more expansive [&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-3162","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\/3162","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=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}