{"id":4597,"date":"2025-01-08T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-senate-strategizes-to-hand-trump-day-one-nominees\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:45:10","slug":"what-were-watching-senate-strategizes-to-hand-trump-day-one-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-senate-strategizes-to-hand-trump-day-one-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Senate strategizes to hand Trump day-one nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f <b>What we&#8217;re watching<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senate Republicans are strategizing how to land a top party priority in the next two weeks: getting some of incoming President Donald Trump\u2019s nominees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/07\/congress\/senates-day-one-goal-on-nominees-00196981\"><u>confirmed on Day One<\/u><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Trump gave a free-wheeling, all encompassing presser yesterday at Mar-a-Lago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/07\/trump-press-conference-greenland-oil-middle-east-takeaways-00196901\"><u>Irie Sentner has the main takeaways<\/u><\/a>, which include drilling, Trump\u2019s legal issues, imperialism and more.\u00a0And last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2025\/01\/07\/why-you-should-follow-trumps-weaves-00196933\" target=\"_blank\">West Wing Playbook delved into<\/a> how Trump&#8217;s &#8220;weaves,&#8221; while chaotic, offer a glimpse into his policy plans. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republican Governors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/07\/congress\/republican-governors-donald-trump-meeting-00196934\"><u>will descend on Mar-a-Lago on Thursday<\/u><\/a> for dinner with Trump.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump\u2019s choice to lead HHS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/07\/congress\/kennedy-to-meet-democrats-00196889\"><u>will meet with Senate Democrats<\/u><\/a> as he tries to shore up his confirmation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/07\/congress\/possible-delays-for-intel-picks-00197007\"><u>racing to schedule confirmation hearings<\/u><\/a> next week for Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s choice to lead the Education Department, Linda McMahon,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/07\/congress\/headwinds-for-linda-mcmahon-00196993\"><u> may not get a hearing in front of the Senate HELP Committee until after Inauguration Day<\/u><\/a> because the committee has not yet received all the documents it requested.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching Senate Republicans are strategizing how to land a top party priority in the next two weeks: getting some of incoming President Donald Trump\u2019s nominees confirmed on Day One. Trump gave a free-wheeling, all encompassing presser yesterday at Mar-a-Lago. Irie Sentner has the main takeaways, which include drilling, Trump\u2019s legal issues, imperialism [&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-4597","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\/4597","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=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}