No More Delays: Republicans Are Restoring the Senate
By Sen. John Thune
Last year, the American people gave President Trump a mandate. Like every president before him, President Trump needs a team to help enact his agenda. But unlike his predecessors, President Trump has had to face unprecedented obstruction from Senate Democrats in getting members of his administration confirmed quickly. Republicans are putting an end to Democrats’ antics to ensure the Senate can do its job and President Trump can have his administration at full strength.
It takes more than 1,000 Senate-confirmed officials to fill a president’s administration. To get so many people on the job quickly, the Senate has historically bundled noncontroversial, lower-level nominees in batches and confirmed them by voice vote. But that’s not how things have gone this year. While previous presidents have had a majority of their nominees approved in this more efficient manner, President Trump is the first president on record not to have a single nominee confirmed this way. Because Democrats have refused to speed things up even for nominees who have bipartisan support, the Senate has had to consider all of President Trump’s nominees one at a time.
That stops now. Republicans have taken steps to restore the Senate’s traditional confirmation process so we can get the rest of President Trump’s team in place. What we’ve done is simply codify in Senate rules what was once understood to be standard practice, and that is confirming lower-level nominees expeditiously in batches. It’s an idea that Democrats actually proposed themselves, and it’s a step toward both the Senate and executive branch working more efficiently for the American people.
The status quo is simply untenable. The Senate has been in session longer and has taken more votes in the last eight months than any Senate has at this point since the 1980s. Yet, at our current pace, facing the same Democrat obstruction, there would still be hundreds of vacancies remaining when President Trump’s term ends. Not to mention the fact that the more time the Senate spends on nominations, the less time we have for working on legislation.
Eight months of petty partisanship is long enough. Democrats have broken the confirmation process. Republicans are fixing it, and we’re ensuring that, in the future, duly elected presidents are able to get their teams in place without unnecessary and partisan delays so they, and the Senate, can fulfill their responsibilities to the American people.
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There’s a reason for the obstruction. Trump has made abysmal choices. He learned from his first administration.
Kristi Noem
RFK
Pam Bondi (corrupt)
Linda McMahon
Pete Hegseth
Others
From the right wing American Enterprise Institute:
As this is written, few of Trump’s appointees are known for any particular principles or ideas. Only a few have any special management expertise in the field they are supposed to cover, or have run large businesses, private organizations, or government agencies. Nor do they have track records that might compromise their willingness or ability to pursue Trump’s policies. His sponsorship will give them extensive authority, but only to follow his lead.
That’s why we can expect that most of his appointments will be people who will not have the independence or backgrounds to veer from the path he lays out.
Although Trump’s most loyal followers think that this is how it should be, they are wrong. The most successful Presidents are those who appointed talented, knowledgeable, and independent people who—because of past experience—were accustomed to solving the inevitable problems that arise in the governing process.
A good example is Ronald Reagan’s administration. Reagan was undoubtedly a successful President, but he chose for his chief advisors and cabinet members people who had already been successful in other realms
Reagan as President was successful economically, politically, and in foreign policy because of these appointments, not in spite of them. Their independent experience and personal reputations helped them to use their respective agencies effectively, leading them in the direction Reagan wanted.
So far, most of Trump’s nominees seem to lack these necessary qualities.
interesting that such a collection of incompetent, unqualified appointees are getting stuff done
You have to remember that libs like Francis will be contrary to anything associated with President Trump. If this administration stated the sky is blue the libs would argue it isn’t.
How is that economy going? Its going to get interesting with all this winning.
Let’s discuss the Republican obstruction when it comes to appointing judges. How often have the GOP altered Senate rules to block a Supreme Court nomination? It’s not merely a matter of Democrats exercising their political rights; it becomes authoritarianism when the GOP modifies the rules to serve their own interests.
Yeah a Gish gusher of appointees which won’t get even a light vetting, from the president who has appointed the most unqualified, uneducated, inexperienced and often horrific cabinet in world history. What could go wrong, with a GOP majority that would vote to approve a ham sandwich?
and they are doing their jobs well, which is why the lefties are complaining so much.
If they were not accomplishing anything, you’d be delighted.
You can’t have this both ways: either they are doing the jobs they were hired to do, and you can’t stand it, or they are not getting anything done and you’re celebrating.
Make up your mind
Well? You mean the veteran the admin removed from the FBI office in Utah just a few short months ago to appoint a yes man? How did that work out?
Anonymous 2:34 LMAO you’re new at this spin stuff aren’t you. Start with tiny half lies first and work your way up to the big lies squirt
Every one of Trumps choices is a loser. Even and especially the smart one Rubio. Being the smartest kid in the special ed room doesn’t count for that much.
so are they carrying out Trump’s agenda or not?
If they aren’t, what are you complaining about?
If they are, then they are doing exactly what they were hired to do.