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{"id":4168,"date":"2024-12-27T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-%f0%9f%91%80\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T15:04:24","slug":"what-were-watching-%f0%9f%91%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-%f0%9f%91%80\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching \ud83d\udc40"},"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>Donald Trump is heading into 2025 with imperialism on the brain, but Republicans are mostly writing the president-elect&#8217;s overtures off as saber rattling. It\u2019s an approach that sometimes helped Trump get what he wanted out of allies and adversaries during his first term, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/26\/republicans-trump-canada-greenland-negotiation-00196050\"><u>Myah Ward reports<\/u><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A Christmas Day social media brawl between Trump\u2019s backers in Silicon Valley and the MAGA base highlighted the looming battle facing the incoming White House and Congress over high-skilled immigration. But the online blowup suggests immigration hard-liners won\u2019t surrender easily to Trump\u2019s new tech friends, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/brendan-bordelon\"><u>Brendan Bordelon reports<\/u><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris is raising doubts about whether Speaker Mike Johnson can pass Trump\u2019s agenda. \u201cWe do need to consider whether \u2014 if we\u2019re going to advance Mr. Trump\u2019s agenda \u2014 whether the\u00a0 current leadership is what we need,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/26\/congress\/freedom-caucus-chair-on-johnson-house-gop-harris-trump-00196049\"><u>Harris told Fox Business<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump congratulated Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt on their engagement <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/113724879333237163\"><u>in a post on Truth Social<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/26\/congress\/tulsi-gabbard-kash-patel-fbi-cia-trump-00196055\"><u>wrote in a letter to senators<\/u><\/a> that neither Kash Patel nor Tulsi Gabbard meet the demands of top intelligence jobs. He urged senators to \u201cweigh the critical importance of nonpartisan leadership and experience.\u201d<\/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 Donald Trump is heading into 2025 with imperialism on the brain, but Republicans are mostly writing the president-elect&#8217;s overtures off as saber rattling. It\u2019s an approach that sometimes helped Trump get what he wanted out of allies and adversaries during his first term, [&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-4168","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\/4168","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=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}