{"id":2390767,"date":"2025-01-15T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-versus-newsom-spat-ignites-at-senate-confirmation-hearing-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:56:07","slug":"trump-versus-newsom-spat-ignites-at-senate-confirmation-hearing-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-versus-newsom-spat-ignites-at-senate-confirmation-hearing-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump versus Newsom spat ignites at Senate confirmation hearing &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-versus-newsom-spat-ignites-at-senate-confirmation-hearing-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390767&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided text appears to include\u200c a button labeled &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221;\u200b that, when clicked, will likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/live-president-biden-briefs-on-hurricane-helene-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"LIVE: President Biden briefs on Hurricane Helene - Washington Examiner\">reveal additional\u2064 content hidden<\/a> from the initial view. 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Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Richard Blumenthal (D-OR) pressed Vought during his Wednesday confirmation hearing about Trump&rsquo;s threats to states.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan first asked Vought if he would stand up to Trump &ldquo;if the president says to you, &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t like California, and I&rsquo;m not going to give them the disaster aid they need.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t engage in hypotheticals, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">president<\/a> would never ask me to do something along those lines,&rdquo; he stated simply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vought gave a slightly more detailed answer when Blumenthal asked if he would commit to releasing funds appropriated by the previous Congress to deal with deadly hurricanes last fall.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will continue to release the money that&rsquo;s appropriately been funded for these areas, as we always have with regard to the FEMA dollars,&rdquo; Vought responded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1935340\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1935340\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s OMB nominee questioned on California wildfire aid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2390768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vought-wildfire.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3678,48474,3634],"class_list":["post-2390767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsom","tag-senate-confirmation-hearing","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vought-wildfire.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390771,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390767\/revisions\/2390771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}