{"id":3680,"date":"2024-12-15T07:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/raskin-requests-information-on-trump-team-background-checks-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T07:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:21:32","slug":"raskin-requests-information-on-trump-team-background-checks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/raskin-requests-information-on-trump-team-background-checks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskin requests information on Trump team background checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top House Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin is seeking information from the Trump-Vance transition team about how nominees will undergo background checks, including a &ldquo;clear assurance&rdquo; that an FBI background check will be performed for all Trump administration picks. Raskin (D-Md.) sent a letter on Friday to Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/13\/congress\/raskins-transition-background-check-ask-00194274\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top House Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin is seeking information from the Trump-Vance transition team about how nominees will undergo background checks, including a &ldquo;clear assurance&rdquo; that an FBI background check will be performed for all Trump administration picks. Raskin (D-Md.) sent a letter on Friday to Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","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=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}