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{"id":4072,"date":"2024-12-24T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-christmas-eve-at-mar-a-lago\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T14:19:58","slug":"what-were-watching-christmas-eve-at-mar-a-lago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-christmas-eve-at-mar-a-lago\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f <b>What we&#8217;re watching<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which administration hopefuls and Republican members of Congress are going to spend Christmas eve at Mar-a-Lago with President-elect Donald Trump? If any attendees are bringing their 7-year-olds, they may want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3hH7bT384hM\">have a chat<\/a> about Santa ahead of time.<\/li>\n<li>Conservatives who want to slash the federal budget are hoping they can enlist Trump and Elon Musk in their efforts. But last week\u2019s government funding meltdown underscored that Trump doesn\u2019t always share their fiscal restraint, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/24\/conservatives-trump-spending-war-wont-be-easy-00195951\">our Jordain Carney reports<\/a>. Though Trump and Musk helped upend the initial bipartisan bill loathed by fiscal hard-liners, his big demand in the next bill \u2014 a looser limit on Washington\u2019s borrowing authority \u2014 is a reminder for them that in Trump\u2019s first term, he exploded the deficit and green-lighted billions in additional spending.<\/li>\n<li>Is Greenland the next territory on Trump\u2019s Santa list? Greenland Prime Minister M\u00fate Egede on Monday shot down any claim that the territory is up for grabs. \u201cGreenland is ours,\u201d Egede wrote on Facebook. \u201cWe are not for sale and will never be for sale.\u201d <\/li>\n<li>The president-elect\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/23\/trump-cant-discard-legacy-media-just-yet-00195946\">approach to the media has evolved<\/a> by taking his message straight to podcasts and online influencers, our Eli Stokols writes. But last week\u2019s funding mess showed that some of the old rules of mainstream media still apply.<\/li>\n<li>Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/24\/us\/starbase-texas-city-elon-musk-spacex.html\">is creating his own town<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump now has landing teams set up at the Office of National Intelligence, our <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dlippman\/status\/1871336406028796117\">John Sakellariadis and Daniel Lippman learned<\/a>. Patrick Witt, Joe Francescon and Joe Kent will coordinate the Trump team\u2019s transition into ODNI.<\/li>\n<li>Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/23\/donald-trump-ambassadors-envoys-battles-00195928\">tapped multiple people for overlapping foreign affairs posts<\/a> \u2014 which may cause battles and confusion over who\u2019s in charge, our Nahal Toosi writes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today: \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching Which administration hopefuls and Republican members of Congress are going to spend Christmas eve at Mar-a-Lago with President-elect Donald Trump? If any attendees are bringing their 7-year-olds, they may want to have a chat about Santa ahead of time. 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