Senate Republicans Don’t Deserve A Vacation Until They’ve Confirmed Trump’s Nominees
Shawn Fleetwood
A day after Donald Trump assumed the Oval Office for the second time, Senate Majority Leader John Thune went to the Senate floor to pledge that he would do whatever it takes to confirm the returning president’s executive appointments.
“As I’ve repeatedly said, Senate Republicans are ready to work as long as needed to confirm President Trump’s nominees. Nights. Weekends. Recesses,” the South Dakota Republican wrote in an X post including his remarks.
As it turns out, that was a load of horse manure.
It is now July and there are currently more than 120 Trump nominees awaiting confirmation by the U.S. Senate. This exhaustive list includes pivotal appointments such as Matthew Lohmeier to be under secretary of the Air Force and Joe Kent to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
As The Federalist’s Rachel Bovard previously observed, while cabinet secretaries “are certainly important … everyone in Washington knows agencies’ sub-Cabinet-level officers and below are just as critical to executing the president’s agenda.” Having seen how the entrenched bureaucracy worked to sabotage Trump’s first term, Bovard noted, “most Republican voters now understand how critical these appointees are.”
Unfortunately, Senate Republicans do not. As Americans have already witnessed, there are real consequences to the party’s unwillingness to rapidly confirm the president’s nominees.
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