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{"id":3725,"date":"2024-12-16T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-thune-and-johnson-gameplan-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:05:31","slug":"what-were-watching-thune-and-johnson-gameplan-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-thune-and-johnson-gameplan-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;re watching: Thune and Johnson gameplan with Trump"},"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>President-elect Donald Trump met with Speaker Mike Johnson and incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune in his suite at the Army-Navy game on Saturday to discuss how to implement his agenda, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/12\/16\/what-the-gops-new-big-3-discussed-this-weekend-00194463\">Playbook reports this morning<\/a>. Johnson and Thune are anxious to get the internal debate over next steps settled, and both know only Trump can do the settling. <\/li>\n<li>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking aim at his party\u2019s isolationist wing in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/price-american-retreat-trump-mitch-mcconnell\">new op-ed in Foreign Affairs<\/a>, a rare rebuke of Trump.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/13\/congress\/trump-daylight-saving-time-00194329\">renewed his push to end daylight saving time<\/a>, calling it \u201cinconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He\u2019s making an announcement at 11 a.m. at Mar-a-Lago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/15\/hegseth-sexual-misconduct-accuser-nda-lindsey-graham-00194425\">Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday<\/a> that Pete Hegseth, the president-elect\u2019s secretary of Defense pick, told him that he would release the person who accused him of sexual misconduct from her nondisclosure agreement.<\/li>\n<li>On Saturday, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/14\/trump-nunes-intelligence-advisory-board-00194388\">chose Devin Nunes<\/a> to run the President\u2019s Intelligence Advisory Board, an independent group within the Executive Office that oversees the U.S. intelligence community\u2019s compliance with the Constitution. Nunes was a former Republican representative from California and chair of the House Intelligence Committee. He is the current CEO of Trump\u2019s social media platform Truth Social.<\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s national security adviser pick, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/15\/mike-waltz-hacking-foreign-penalties-00194415\">U.S. needs to take a stronger stance on consequences for foreign hackers<\/a> following recent hacks targeting Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance by a Chinese-backed group. \u201cWe need to start going on offense and start imposing, I think, higher costs and consequences to private actors and nation state actors that continue to steal our data, that continue to spy on us,\u201d he told CBS News on Sunday.<\/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 Trump administration picks<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/14\/trump-bill-white-ambassador-belgium-00194387\">tapped businessman Bill White<\/a> to serve as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Saturday. White stepped down as CEO of the New York Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in 2010 due to an investigation into a state pension scandal launched by then-Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo. He was a major donor to Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign.<\/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 President-elect Donald Trump met with Speaker Mike Johnson and incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune in his suite at the Army-Navy game on Saturday to discuss how to implement his agenda, Playbook reports this morning. 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