Welcome to Confirmapalooza.
Senate Committees are set to question six of Donald Trump’s top appointees over their priorities and positions on issues of war, spycraft, electric cars and more.
The prospective nominees will help form the backbone of the second Trump administration, and include a lawyer from the president-elect’s 2019 impeachment defense team, a trusted Senate foreign affairs hand, a MAGA intelligence leader, a 90s reality TV star turned Republican congressman.
Wednesday’s hearings come one day after former Fox and Friends co-host Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, emerged unscathed from a Democratic firestorm at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Hegseth, once considered one of Trump’s most vulnerable cabinet picks, now seems headed for confirmation.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, ex-Florida Attorney General and corporate lobbyist Pam Bondi, is set to face formal questioning from senators as her confirmation hearing kicks off at 9 a.m.
Bondi, who was a defense lawyer for Trump in his first impeachment trial, is generally expected to be confirmed after Trump’s controversial first pick – former Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz – dropped out. Gaetz faced accusations that he paid women for sex and had sex with a minor. Gaetz has said he gave money to women he dated and strongly denied having intercourse with someone underage.
