{"id":4540,"date":"2025-01-07T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-settling-on-a-strategy-to-pass-trumps-agenda\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:20:19","slug":"what-were-watching-settling-on-a-strategy-to-pass-trumps-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-settling-on-a-strategy-to-pass-trumps-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Settling on a strategy to pass Trump&#8217;s agenda"},"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>Less than 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump endorsed \u201cone powerful bill\u201d to carry his domestic policy agenda, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/07\/trump-gop-confusion-reconciliation-plan-00196745\">a dozen senators told POLITICO<\/a> that the legislative path to its enactment remains an open question.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Both House and Senate Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2025\/01\/07\/senate-and-house-gop-battle-for-trumps-favor-00196792\">are looking at Trump<\/a> to decide how to pass his agenda, since House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are split. And while Trump said he prefers one piece of legislation, he has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1876265964985073699\">expressed openness to other options<\/a> \u201cas long as we get something passed as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Democrats have their doubts about whether Republicans will be able to pass a reconciliation bill, having faced their own reconciliation troubles trying to pass President Joe Biden\u2019s agenda. \u201cGood luck,\u201d Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/06\/congress\/dem-reconciliation-schadenfreude-00196670\">told POLITICO Monday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While in town ahead of President Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/06\/congress\/senate-gop-wants-meeting-with-trump-00196754\">Trump will meet with GOP Senators to discuss reconciliation on Wednesday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s report on his two dismissed criminal cases against the president-elect. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kyledcheney\/status\/1876599874193604836\">POLITICO\u2019s Kyle Cheney notes this morning<\/a> that Garland has not decided whether or not Smith\u2019s report will be released.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/06\/congress\/hearings-on-tap-for-trump-nominees-00196679\">Senate confirmation hearing schedule is starting to firm up<\/a>, with two of Trump\u2019s most important Cabinet nominees, attorney general pick Pam Bondi and Defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth, set for a double header on Jan. 14. Agriculture secretary pick Brooke Rollins will have a hearing on Jan. 15. And former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Trump\u2019s choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency, will have his hearing on either the 15th or 16th.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udcddICYMI: Here are Trump&#8217;s latest administration picks\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump has picked Joseph Nocella Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/new-york-playbook\/2025\/01\/07\/intergovernmental-adams-00196780\">as the next U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York<\/a>.<\/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 Less than 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump endorsed \u201cone powerful bill\u201d to carry his domestic policy agenda, a dozen senators told Blue Light News that the legislative path to its enactment remains an open question.\u00a0 Both House and Senate Republicans are looking at Trump [&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-4540","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\/4540","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=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}