Scott Bessent’s listening to is considered one of a number of screenings by US Senators this week of Donald Trump’s cupboard nominations.
One of many highest profile hearings was Pete Hegseth, Trump’s decide for the Pentagon, who was within the sizzling seat for a tense Senate committee listening to on Tuesday. Sexual assault and alcohol abuse allegations in opposition to the previous Fox Information host have been raised, however Hegseth disparaged the media’s “co-ordinated smear marketing campaign” in opposition to him in the course of the four-hour listening to.
Trump’s nominee for US attorney-general, Pam Bondi, stated that “politics is not going to play a component” in her choices relating to who to analyze, when questioned throughout a affirmation listening to on Wednesday. The longtime Trump supporter, who beforehand served two phrases as Florida’s attorney-general, has previously promised “the investigators will be investigated” following the president-elect’s return to the White Home. Bondi will seem once more for a second day of questioning in the present day.
Republican senator Marco Rubio, who’s Trump’s alternative for secretary of state, and Sean Duffy, the president-elect’s decide to move the Division of Transportation, every had comparatively subdued hearings on Wednesday.
