Today at 10:30 am EST, Scott Bessent will appear before the Senate Finance Committee for a confirmation hearing on his nomination to be United States Treasury Secretary. Livestream Link Below:
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Today at 10:30am former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum will appear before the Senate Energy Committee as part of his confirmation process for Interior Secretary. Livestream Links Below:
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Senate confirmation hearings for President Trump cabinet nominations continue today.
10 a.m.: Scott Turner, secretary of housing and urban development. Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Doug Burgum, interior secretary. 10:30 a.m.: Scott Bessent, Treasury secretary.
♦ Scott Turner, a former football player who served as a midlevel official in the first Trump administration, has been elevated as Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
♦ Former Representative Lee Zeldin of New York previously made an unsuccessful run for governor in the state in 2022. Now he has been tapped by President Trump to carry out his environmental policy and remove excessive climate regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency.
♦ Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum made a $1 billion fortune in the tech industry before running for governor. Burgum, who has longstanding ties to oil and gas companies will seek to fulfill the “drill baby drill” energy independence policy expressed by candidate Trump. Burgum would be in charge of managing vast swaths of federal land and coastal waters in the Interior Department, as well as leases of those lands for oil and gas drilling.
♦ Scott Bessent is a billionaire hedge fund manager who has been a central economic adviser to Mr. Trump as the president-elect created a campaign agenda centered on raising tariffs on imported goods. Mr. Bessent, who will oversee some of America’s most powerful economic levers in the Treasury Department, has called for rolling back government subsidies, deregulating the economy and raising domestic energy production.
Burgum and Bessent will get the majority of attention from the ‘resistance’ democrats and the Moonbats amid their climate change base.
Russell Vought, President-elect Trump’s choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today at 1:00pm.
Russel Vought is on track to repeat his role as OMB director, which he helmed at the end of Trump’s first term. If confirmed, he’ll lead the office that oversees the implementation of the president’s vision across the executive branch, including the development and execution of the federal budget.
Vought was also a key author of the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. The Senate will go bananas over this point of contention. Vought penned a section that touches on the executive office of the president. Livestream Links Below.
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Today at 10:00am EST, CIA Director nominee John Ratcliffe will appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to answer questions about his nomination. Ratcliffe has numerous allies in the Intelligence Community including Chairman Tom Cotton and Vice-Chair Mark Warner. Resistance level, very low.
John Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman who served as the director of national intelligence for President Trump in the first term, is now tasked with leading the second most prestigious and capable intelligence agencies in the world. As CIA Director Mr. Ratcliffe would have an influential position on matters of national intelligence and would likely not lie to President Trump unless it was necessary to retain the integrity of the silo he leads. Livestream Links Below:
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Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State nominee Senator Marco Rubio, will appear before his peers to answer questions about his nomination. The resistance to him will be minimal.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida was a political rival of President Trump but also a key adviser on foreign policy issues. Mr. Rubio, once a top contender to be Mr. Trump’s running mate last year, is a Deep State foreign policy hawk who has taken a hard-line approach to China, a very supportive position on Ukraine, and an overall globalist stance that will influence his leadership of America’s diplomatic efforts and keep the U.S. Senate very happy.
Senator Rubio is scheduled to appear at 10:00am EST. Livestream Links Below:
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Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General for Florida, former DC lobbyist and ally to President Trump, will appear at 9:30am in the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about her nomination. The democrat resistance will be moderate.
Pam Bondi made her name in Florida politics as the state’s first female attorney general. After endorsing Mr. Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, Ms. Bondi joined Mr. Trump’s legal defense team during his first impeachment in 2019. As the Attorney General nominee Bondi would oversee the Justice Department and the full contingent of federal prosecutors. Livestream Links Below:
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Today a set of President Trump nominees will begin the confirmation process with key hearings in the U.S Senate.
Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi (day #1); Secretary of State nominee, Marco Rubio; Secretary of Transportation nominee, Sean Duffy; Central Intelligence Director nominee, John Ratcliffe; Secretary of Energy nominee Chris Wright; and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell T. Vought, will all be appearing in their related committees on Capitol Hill.
Bondi starts at 9:30am EST. Rubio, Duffy, Ratcliffe and Wright will be at 10:00am EST. Vought will be at 1:00pm EST.
Due to the simultaneous hearing overlap, we will post individual breakout threads on each nominee along with hearing livestreams. You can pick the ones to watch or switch back and forth.
Bondi, Rubio and Ratcliffe will be interesting to watch; however, each is in alignment with the dark elements of the Deep State and essentially a shoo-in for their respective departments. On the other hand, Russel Vought is the one most likely to face fierce opposition, in part due to the OMB controlling the purse strings of the executive.
The Senate will not like Vought interfering with their spending programs. The business of selling DC policy for personal financial gain requires a compliant OMB to organize the check writing. The Senators will demand strict adherence to their financial decision-making, and if Vought takes an independent executive position, there could be masks dropped and trouble in the confirmation process.
The Wednesday forecast is for a mostly sunny, happy, reach-across-the-aisle kinda day, with a chance of scattered thunderstorms later in the afternoon when Vought approaches the Eastern coastline.
Appearing on the increasingly insufferable former news channel, both Senator Mullin and Senator Hegseth now see an increasingly optimistic future for Defense Secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth’s hearing clearly showcased a worn-out playbook of resistance being deployed by the Democrats in the Senate. Their foot stomping was childish and is increasingly positioning the Democrat Party as irrelevant in the larger picture of U.S politics. Perhaps we are finally beyond the end of an error. We can hope.
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In the larger dynamic of American government, which more people now thankfully see as a grand pantomime, and while Mullin and Cotton are on the right side -at least optically- of the Hegseth nomination, their alignment with a perspective that government provides some larger value in the lives of Americans is still grossly out of place.
The mechanisms, systems and institutions of U.S. government, must be severely unmeshed from defining and influencing permitted activity by the American people. The bureaucracy must be destroyed, if we are to have any reemergence of liberty. This is a core issue now visible in the eyes of an awakened majority.
While I am thankful that Markwayne Mullin and Tom Cotton support the removal of the Marxism mindset from the military, that is only one facet of the larger governmental outlook that needs to be confronted.
There were three Senate committee confirmation hearings scheduled for today, two of them have been cancelled due to the FBI not providing the committees with background reports. Considering the way DC operates, and considering the Senate operators wanted to totally focus on Pete Hegseth as their first scalp, the clearing of the decks to focus exclusively on Hegseth is not coincidental.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled to conduct a confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth today at 9:30am ET. Livestream Links are Below:
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