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{"id":5044,"date":"2025-01-17T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-trumps-busy-weekend-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:19:16","slug":"what-were-watching-trumps-busy-weekend-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-trumps-busy-weekend-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Trump&#8217;s busy weekend in Washington"},"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>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s transition, which kicked off at an expeditious pace with his naming of top Cabinet positions, comes to a close on Monday, when Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/donald-trump-inauguration-day-weather-forecast-00198682\">sworn in during a frigid ceremony at the Capitol<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Speaker Mike Johnson is remaking the House Intelligence Committee in Trump\u2019s image, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/17\/house-intelligence-maga-mike-johnson-00198821\">a shakeup with immense implications<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Prospective Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/16\/trump-day-one-cabinet-marco-rubio-00198788\">may be riding solo on Day One<\/a>, as he appears to be the only Cabinet nominee with the backing to be confirmed Monday.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s Trump up to?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump has a jam-packed weekend before Inauguration Day that will end with a MAGA rally Sunday night at Capital One Arena. He\u2019s also scheduled to attend a dinner and a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery over the weekend. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/13\/congress\/trump-inauguration-schedule-00197786\">You can read the full inauguration schedule here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>New York City Mayor Eric Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/16\/eric-adams-meet-trump-mar-a-lago-00198868\">is headed to Mar-a-Lago<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/pelosi-to-skip-trumps-inauguration-00198652\">is skipping Trump\u2019s inauguration<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/chinas-envoy-to-the-inauguration-00198885\">is sending an envoy<\/a> to the inauguration.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>TikTok is spending $50,000 on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/tiktok-sponsor-trump-inauguration-party-00198825\">inauguration party honoring influencers<\/a> who used the app to campaign for the president-elect.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump\u2019s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at 9 a.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/14\/congress\/noems-hearing-postponed-00198241\">after her initial Wednesday hearing was delayed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth\u2019s confirmation vote has already been delayed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/senate-hegseth-confirmation-vote-inauguration-00198745\">past Day One of the Trump administration<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A progressive group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/ad-campaign-against-rfk-jr-gop-senators-00198840\">is launching a $250,000 ad campaign<\/a> against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s confirmation as Health and Human Services secretary.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udcddICYMI: Here are Trump&#8217;s latest administration picks\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Troy Meink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/trump-names-air-force-secretary-00198770\">was selected by Trump<\/a> for Air Force secretary.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/trump-special-envoys-hollywood-00198727\">announced actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone to serve as special envoys<\/a> to \u201ca great but very troubled place,\u201d Hollywood.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Chris Stallings was tapped to be assistant administrator for disaster recovery and resilience at the Small Business Administration.<\/li>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/16\/congress\/trump-picks-top-housing-regulator-00198667\">selected Bill Pulte<\/a> to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The president-elect announced picks for three undersecretaries in the Agriculture Department: Richard Fordyce as undersecretary for farm production and conservation, Michael Boren as undersecretary for natural resources and environment and Dudley Hoskins as undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Trump also named a number of Energy Department undersecretaries on Thursday, including Wells Griffith as undersecretary of energy, Dar\u00edo Gil as undersecretary for science and innovation and Brandon Williams as undersecretary for nuclear security and administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.<\/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 President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s transition, which kicked off at an expeditious pace with his naming of top Cabinet positions, comes to a close on Monday, when Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will be sworn in during a frigid ceremony at the Capitol.\u00a0 Speaker [&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-5044","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\/5044","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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}