WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees at once, voting for the first time under new rules to begin clearing a backlog of executive branch positions that had been delayed by Democrats.
Frustrated by the stalling tactics, Senate Republicans moved last week to make it easier to confirm large groups of lower-level, non-judicial nominations. Democrats had forced multiple votes on almost every one of Trump’s picks, infuriating the president and tying up the Senate floor.
The new rules allow Senate Republicans to move multiple nominees with a simple majority vote — a process that would have previously been blocked with just one objection. The rules don’t apply to judicial nominations or high-level Cabinet posts.
“Republicans have fixed a broken process,” Thune said ahead of the vote.
The Senate voted 51-47 to confirm the four dozen nominees. Thune said that those confirmed on Thursday had all received bipartisan votes in committee, including deputy secretaries for the Departments of Defense, Interior, Energy and others.
Among the confirmed are Jonathan Morrison, the new administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece. Guilfoyle is a former California prosecutor and television news personality who led the fundraising for Trump’s 2020 campaign and was once engaged to Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
Are you saying that the Republicans going nuclear is the left’s fault? Wow, just wow. The Republicans are destroying our government, but somehow, somehow, that’s the left’s fault. That’s like saying that every victim everywhere deserved it.
Psst. See Murc’s Law.
Wouldn’t “holding them responsible” mean prosecuting them? Who has the power to do that?
The majority. When the dems had majority, they impeached him. The republican majority let him go.
The dems appointed an AG who chose not to prosecute Trump because that would be political.
They’re saying the dems not going nuclear under Obama and Biden is the problem.
“We should have turned authoritarian before they did”, basically.
It’s a valid point when the republicans were telegraphing their intentions to do so the whole time. Should have seized power, disposed of the traitors and restructured the laws to fix the loopholes that allowed it to happen in the first place. Biden would have been great for this since he was already old as shit and they could have thrown him under the bus after the fact.
Implementing fair voting laws is not authoritarianism.
And how does one “implement a law”?
Schoolhouse Rock can explain it to you better than me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8psP4S6BQ
SNL updated it for the Executive Order era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0
You’re seriously asking how members of Congress can “implement a law?”
I know what they’re saying, lol. It’s Obama’s fault that the Republicans are pieces of shit.
Republicans have been destroying our government for decades and decades and we now see the Democrats had the tools to undo the damage but never actually followed through with any of it.
Perhaps the original sin of the Obama Administration was that they never dismantled the post 9/11 surveillance state. It was almost a perfect Tolkien allegory. They had this great, terrible, and Constitutionally dubious power they inherited from the prior administration. They could choose to use it or destroy it. Unfortunately our leaders are not as noble as hobbits, so Obama chose to keep the power for himself.
Plus letting Bush and Cheney off on their war crimes so that we could “heal as a nation” certainly didnt help either. Biden, while not stating as much, did the same thing with Trump after all his illegal actions including J6, and only decided to pretend to do something a few months before the '24 election after he’d already secured the RNC nomination.
It’s only the left fault because the left doesn’t want them to do it and the Nazis want to do what they want to do. With Republicans the ends always justify the means in this case the ends mean Confederates won‽
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