{"id":5398,"date":"2025-01-28T04:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-tees-up-final-vote-on-duffy-nomination-to-run-transportation-department\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T04:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T04:20:33","slug":"senate-tees-up-final-vote-on-duffy-nomination-to-run-transportation-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-tees-up-final-vote-on-duffy-nomination-to-run-transportation-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate tees up final vote on Duffy nomination to run Transportation Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) moved a step closer to becoming the next Transportation secretary as the Senate voted unanimously to tee up a final vote to confirm him.&nbsp; Senators voted 97-0 to invoke cloture on Duffy&rsquo;s nomination. Duffy is expected to be among President Trump&rsquo;s nominees to receive widespread support on both sides of&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/5109658-sean-duffy-transportation-department\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) moved a step closer to becoming the next Transportation secretary as the Senate voted unanimously to tee up a final vote to confirm him.&nbsp; Senators voted 97-0 to invoke cloture on Duffy&rsquo;s nomination. Duffy is expected to be among President Trump&rsquo;s nominees to receive widespread support on both sides of&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","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=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}