{"id":4817,"date":"2025-01-13T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-should-hold-trump-nominees-accountable-at-hearings-schumer-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:03:51","slug":"dems-should-hold-trump-nominees-accountable-at-hearings-schumer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-should-hold-trump-nominees-accountable-at-hearings-schumer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems should hold Trump nominees \u2018accountable\u2019 at hearings, Schumer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is privately urging his members to use upcoming hearings on President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominees to hold their \u201cfeet to the fire,\u201d according to a Senate Democratic official.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer\u2019s guidance, given to members during a closed-door lunch last Tuesday, comes as the Senate kicks off a marathon run of confirmation hearings this week. All of the early attention will be on Pete Hegseth, Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Defense Department. He will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer told members during the closed-door lunch that they should hold Trump\u2019s nominees \u201caccountable\u201d for his agenda, particularly as it relates to the working class and families, the official said. That will include using the public hearings to get them to detail how the nominees will enact Trump\u2019s campaign promises, the person added, as well as digging into their backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Because Democrats are no longer in control of the chamber, they can drag out the confirmation fights but can\u2019t ultimately prevent a nominee from getting confirmed so long as Republicans stick together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is privately urging his members to use upcoming hearings on President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominees to hold their \u201cfeet to the fire,\u201d according to a Senate Democratic official. Schumer\u2019s guidance, given to members during a closed-door lunch last Tuesday, comes as the Senate kicks off a marathon run of confirmation hearings [&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-4817","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\/4817","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=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}