{"id":456,"date":"2024-11-11T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/trumps-dot-transition-team-includes-officials-from-his-first-term-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:29:48","slug":"trumps-dot-transition-team-includes-officials-from-his-first-term-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-dot-transition-team-includes-officials-from-his-first-term-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s DOT transition team includes officials from his first term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s campaign has tapped two former Transportation Department officials to help the agency\u2019s transition efforts as he prepares for his second term, Blue Light News has learned.<br \/>\nThat includes Skip Elliott, who worked under Trump\u2019s DOT as administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and also as acting DOT inspector general&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/08\/congress\/trumps-dot-transition-relies-on-old-hands-00188519\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s campaign has tapped two former Transportation Department officials to help the agency\u2019s transition efforts as he prepares for his second term, Blue Light News has learned. That includes Skip Elliott, who worked under Trump\u2019s DOT as administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and also as acting DOT inspector general&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/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-456","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\/456","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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}