McEnany: Dems Shift Further Left a ‘Gift’ To GOP Ahead of Midterms Now
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Trump picked up a big win earlier this week from the U.S. Senate.
Senate Republicans have confirmed over 100 of President Donald Trump’s nominees, clearing the backlog of pending appointments in a single move. The confirmations came after the Senate GOP changed its rules last month to allow most executive branch nominees to be approved en masse rather than individually.
The move represents the largest block of confirmations since the rule change took effect. Among those approved were former Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who will serve as ambassador to the Bahamas, and Sergio Gor, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, who will serve as ambassador to India.
The change does not apply to Cabinet secretaries or judicial nominees
Republicans invoked the so-called “nuclear option” — a party-line rules change — to speed up the confirmation process after months of Democratic opposition had slowed it to a crawl.
However, GOP leaders ultimately rejected that idea, citing concerns that it could backfire when their party is next in the minority.
The mass confirmation marks a major victory for Trump as his administration continues to fill key posts across the federal government amid ongoing partisan gridlock.
Some Republicans briefly considered allowing President Trump to make recess appointments, which would enable him to fill positions while the Senate was not in session
In September, Senate Republicans weighed changes to the chamber’s confirmation process as they faced a backlog of judicial nominations due to stall tactics by minority Democrats.
GOP lawmakers considered several proposals before a meeting to speed up confirmations. According to The Hill, the leading option mirrored a Democratic plan floated two years earlier that would have permitted a single vote on as many as 10 nominees.
Other ideas included sharply reducing debate time, making some nominations nondebatable, and cutting the required procedural votes.
