{"id":31732,"date":"2025-01-28T01:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/trumps-transportation-secretary-nominee-advances-to-final-senate-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T01:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:04:56","slug":"trumps-transportation-secretary-nominee-advances-to-final-senate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/trumps-transportation-secretary-nominee-advances-to-final-senate-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s transportation secretary nominee advances to final Senate vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Duffy, the president’s pick to lead the Department of Transportation, has advanced to the final round of the Senate confirmation process that will decide whether he assumes a top Cabinet position in President Donald Trump’s<\/a> administration.<\/p>\n

Duffy was tapped by Trump to head the transportation agency for the next four years, undergoing a confirmation hearing with the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, which advanced his candidacy with bipartisan support.<\/p>\n

The Senate held a cloture vote for Duffy on Monday, which passed unanimously.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TULSI GABBARD, RFK JR. EXPECTED TO FACE OPPOSITION IN SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SENATE CONFIRMS KRISTI NOEM AS TRUMP’S DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The cloture vote came just minutes after the Senate voted to confirm Scott Bessent to serve as the secretary of the treasury.<\/p>\n

The Senate’s final vote on whether to confirm Duffy, a former Republican congressman, to the Cabinet post is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean Duffy, the president’s pick to lead the Department of Transportation, has advanced to the final round of the Senate confirmation process that will decide whether he assumes a top Cabinet position in President Donald Trump’s administration. Duffy was tapped by Trump to head the transportation agency for the next four years, undergoing a confirmation … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}