US Senate confirms 48 of Trump’s nominees under new Republican rules | US Senate
The Senate confirmed 48 of Donald Trump’s candidates at once and voted for the first time under new rules to begin to clean the accumulation of the manager branch positions postponed by the Democrats.
The Senate Republicans, who were disappointed by stopping tactics, moved last week to facilitate the major groups of lower -level, non -judicial candidacy groups. The Democrats forced more than one vote in almost each of Trump’s elections, infuriated the president and tied the Senate floor.
New rules allow Senate Republicans to carry more than one candidate with a simple majority vote – a process that will be prevented by just one objection. Rules do not apply to judicial candidacy or senior cabinet duties.
“Republicans have corrected a broken process, Thunde said Thunde before the vote.
The Senate voted 51-47 to approve the four dozen candidates. Thune said that those who were confirmed on Thursday received two -party votes in the committee, including the Deputy Secretary for defense, internal, energy and others departments.
Approved, Jonathan Morrison, the new manager of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Kimberly Guilfoyle as the US Ambassador to Greece. Guilfoyle, Trump’s 2020 campaign, led to gathering donations and once the son of Trump Donald Trump Jr.
Thune’s move is the last Salvo after a dozen -year -old change of both sides. Both sides blocked each other’s candidates for years and defended the process of accelerating the process when the senators on both sides were in the majority.
The Republicans first suggested to change the rules in the early August, when the Senate was divided into a recess in two -party negotiations on the approval process of the Senate, and Trump Senate Democratic Leading Chuck Schumer said, “Go to hell!” He said. on social media.
The Democrats blocked more candidates than ever because they struggled to find ways to oppose the Trump and GOP dominant congress and pushed voters to fight republicans at every opportunity. For the first time in the recent history, the Minority Party did not allow some rapid approval.
Schumer said the democrats delayed candidates because Trump’s candidates are “historically bad”. And a similar warning from the Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who said to the Republicans’ rule amendments to the Republicans, reflected the democratic leader Harry Reid in 2013, which he changed the rules of the Senate for the executive branch of the Democrats and to remove the 60 vote threshold for the sub-court candidates.
At that time, the Republicans were blocking Barack Obama’s choices.
Republicans received the majority of the Senate a year later, and McConnell did the same for Supreme Court candidates in 2017 while the Democrats were trying to prevent Trump’s Neil Gords’ nomination.
“In the Senate of the Republicans, it is even more to give more power in the Senate and to stamped a tire at any time,” Schumer said.
Republicans will act to approve a second candidate tranche in the coming weeks and slowly clean the list of more than 100 nominations waiting for months.
“There will be more,” Thune said Thune on Thursday. “And we will ensure that President Trump’s administration is filled at a speed that resembles its predecessors.”
