{"id":4924,"date":"2025-01-15T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-six-nominees-get-their-hearings\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:03:46","slug":"what-were-watching-six-nominees-get-their-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-six-nominees-get-their-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Six nominees get their hearings"},"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>Six of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s Cabinet nominees will face Senate panels today on their path to potential confirmation. Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi is up first, and her confirmation is looking likely, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/14\/pam-bondi-senate-confirmation-trump-00198278\">as many Democrats have softened their opinion of her<\/a> since she served as Trump\u2019s personal attorney in 2020.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>At 10 a.m., Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio, Transportation secretary pick Sean Duffy, CIA director choice John Ratcliffe and Energy secretary pick Chris Wright will appear before Senate committees. At 1 p.m., Russell Vought, Trump\u2019s pick for OMB director, will have his hearing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth faced a grueling confirmation hearing Tuesday, which might be good news for another one of Trump\u2019s controversial picks, Tulsi Gabbard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/15\/gabbard-nomination-00198303\">Jonathan Martin writes this morning<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/14\/trump-inauguration-security-threats-00198275\">national security agencies are warning<\/a> that Trump\u2019s inauguration will be \u201can attractive potential target\u201d for violent extremists.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Tuesday, and following similar comments from Steve Bannon at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/14\/bannon-on-musk-he-doesnt-have-that-much-power-00198060\">POLITICO event<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/14\/congress\/trump-to-create-external-revenue-service-for-tariffs-00198155\">Trump said he will create a new agency called the External Revenue Service<\/a> to collect tariffs and other forms of revenue that come from foreign sources.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hegseth got the nod of support from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/14\/congress\/ernst-says-shes-a-yes-on-hegseth-00198297\">key GOP Sen. Joni Ernst<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of Commerce-designate Howard Lutnick\u2019s confirmation hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/14\/congress\/trump-commerce-secretary-paperwork-00198170\">is being delayed by paperwork<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udcddICYMI: Here are Trump&#8217;s latest administration picks\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump announced Keith Sonderling as his pick to be deputy Labor secretary.<\/li>\n<li>Ross Worthington is expected to be Trump\u2019s head speechwriter in the White House, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/14\/congress\/trump-worthington-00198301\">Sophia Cai and Dasha Burns reported Tuesday<\/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 Six of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s Cabinet nominees will face Senate panels today on their path to potential confirmation. Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi is up first, and her confirmation is looking likely, as many Democrats have softened their opinion of her since she served [&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-4924","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\/4924","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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}