{"id":3206,"date":"2024-12-04T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-hegseth-on-the-hot-seat\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:02:34","slug":"what-were-watching-hegseth-on-the-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-hegseth-on-the-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Hegseth on the hot seat"},"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>Defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth is still on the hot seat as more allegations against him continue to trickle in, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/pete-hegseths-drinking-worried-colleagues-fox-news-sources-tell-nbc-ne-rcna181471\">this time via an NBC News report<\/a> that his drinking habits have concerned fellow Fox employees \u201con more than a dozen occasions.\u201d He&#8217;s meeting with more senators today and is expected to appear on Fox News. <\/li>\n<li>While Hegseth fights the nomination headwinds, President-elect Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/03\/trump-considers-desantis-defense-secretary-hegseth-00192521\">is considering a new choice to run the Pentagon<\/a>: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Trump-Vance transition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/03\/trump-transition-doj-agreement-00192451\">signed an agreement<\/a> Tuesday with the Department of Justice allowing the transition team to \u201csubmit names for background checks and security clearances\u201d after delaying the signing for weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/03\/congress\/dea-nominee-withdraws-00192467\">abruptly withdrew his name from consideration<\/a> just days after being chosen. Chad Chronister didn\u2019t cite a reason for his withdrawal other than concluding he wanted to continue in his current role as a sheriff in Florida.<\/li>\n<li>Scott Bessent, Trump\u2019s choice to run the Treasury Department, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/03\/congress\/treasury-pick-bessent-to-meet-with-senate-gop-leaders-this-week-00192422\">is planning to meet with<\/a> incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Sen. John Barrasso later this week.<\/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>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/03\/congress\/trump-picks-billionaire-investor-pentagon-deputy-00192390\">has selected Stephen Feinberg<\/a> to be his deputy Defense secretary, potentially putting a secretive billionaire financier with no experience in the agency into the Pentagon\u2019s No. 2 job.<\/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 Defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth is still on the hot seat as more allegations against him continue to trickle in, this time via an NBC News report that his drinking habits have concerned fellow Fox employees \u201con more than a dozen occasions.\u201d He&#8217;s [&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-3206","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\/3206","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=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}