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{"id":4988,"date":"2025-01-16T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-the-riff-between-thune-and-johnson\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:06:43","slug":"what-were-watching-the-riff-between-thune-and-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-the-riff-between-thune-and-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: The riff between Thune and Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f <b>What we&#8217;re watching<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are quick to praise each other, but when it comes to fundamental questions of legislative strategy for passing President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s agenda, they remain at loggerheads, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/16\/mike-johnson-john-thune-trump-agenda-rachael-bade-column-00198505\">Rachael Bade writes this morning<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding its second hearing with would-be Attorney General Pam Bondi. Also appearing before Senate panels on Thursday are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-money\/2025\/01\/16\/fast-times-fuel-big-bank-high-00198596\">Treasury pick Scott Bessent<\/a>, Interior pick Doug Burgum, EPA pick Lee Zeldin and HUD pick Eric Scott Turner.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Former Biden-Harris officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/16\/return-dem-resistance-004309\">will launch a new legal response center <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/16\/return-dem-resistance-004309\">on Inauguration Day<\/a> to bolster the fight against Trump\u2019s impending executive orders.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The president-elect\u2019s inaugural committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/16\/trump-inauguration-corporate-donors-004242\">is raking in cash<\/a> from industries that his administration will soon oversee.<\/li>\n<li>Trump is quickly taking credit for the cease-fire struck between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/15\/gaza-ceasefire-progressives-trump-biden-004319\">and even some progressives agree with him<\/a>. \u201cThis EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November,\u201d Trump posted Wednesday to Truth Social.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Google CEO Sundar Pichai will join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/15\/congress\/google-ceo-to-attend-inauguration-00198516\">the growing list of tech executives<\/a> sitting on the dais as Trump is sworn into office Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russell Vought, Trump\u2019s nominee for White House budget director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/15\/trumps-pick-for-budget-chief-echoes-his-power-of-the-purse-dreams-00198510\">wouldn\u2019t commit<\/a> to having the federal government spend all the money Congress approves.<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of State pick Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/15\/rubio-senate-confirmation-hearing-00198494\">had a pretty easy hearing yesterday<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bondi\u2019s first hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/15\/pam-bondi-hearing-kash-patel-in-hot-seat-004272\">included a lot of questions about FBI pick Kash Patel.<\/a> And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/15\/congress\/pam-bondi-doj-jack-smith-00198444\">she wouldn\u2019t say<\/a> if she would investigate special counsel Jack Smith.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/15\/congress\/mike-pence-rfk-jr-abortion-hhs-00198460\">is advocating against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s confirmation<\/a> over his stance on abortion.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Vice President-elect JD Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/15\/congress\/vances-ritzy-fundraiser-00198583\">hosted a $250,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach<\/a> on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Co-head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency Vivek Ramaswamy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/15\/vivek-senate-dewine-004221\">is being considered to fill Vance\u2019s Ohio Senate seat<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are quick to praise each other, but when it comes to fundamental questions of legislative strategy for passing President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s agenda, they remain at loggerheads, Rachael Bade writes this morning.\u00a0 The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding its second hearing with [&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-4988","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\/4988","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=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}