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.
Those people get scared into believing dogshit candidates like Biden are more “electable” by the MSM. They will vote as they are told in the general.
The only people you can win are the ones who hear “healthcare? Free?? I’m paying 1500/mo and still end up paying out the ass when I need to use it!”, but won’t turn out for “subsidies for employer-sponored health insurance on a market purchased through 1 of 50 websites” because they know that complicated, means tested bullshit won’t help them.
Yeah, I’ll start believing any of that when people actually make it happen.
Maybe some ACTION combined with all this bitching would finally turn things around. I’ll wait (and hope.)
There was action, in every single city in the US in 2020. The dems told us to fuck off and gave more money to police to kick the shit out of us.
There was action in colleges across the country in 2024, the dems told the young, politically activated youth they depend on for a ground-game to fuck off, called them anti-semites, and supported schools expelling them.