EXCLUSIVE: Thune Says Trump Nominees Are Being Confirmed At Rapid Pace Despite ‘Historic’ Obstruction

Senate majority leader John Thune, President Donald Trump’s candidates, despite the historical obstacle of the Senate Democrats who want to stop the approval process.
Although the Senate Democrats try to prevent rapid approval of almost all candidates, the rapid approval of the Senate’s appointed administration is leaving the approved time schedules of the previous two administrations. In a comprehensive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation, Thune expressed disappointment with the delay tactics of the democrats, but the Senate reiterated that republicans would not take their foot from the gas to process the president of the president. (Related: ‘The right thing to be done’: Thune, ‘Big, beautiful’ Bill’de goes to matt for Medicaid reforms)
“Even candidates with a wide, bilateral support, want to prevent everything,” he said, referring to the refusal of the Senate Democrats to give the president to give the candidates a faster floor assessment. “I think the American people will be bored.”
The Senate’s former Republican Missouri representative Billy Long’s leadership to the Internal Income Service (IRS) in the afternoon of Thursday marked the 80th Civil Candidate to be approved since January. Under the leadership of Thune, the Senate committed more civilian candidates than the former President Joe Biden’s term of office or the first year of Trump’s first period.
According to the information compiled by the Senate Republicans Communication Center (SRCC), which is aligned with the Senate GOP leadership, the approved of Trump candidates as of June 5th left the first Trump administration by 33 candidates.
(Senate Republic Communication Center)
Nevertheless, approximately 100 candidates are waiting to think about the ground according to the Senate executive calendar.
The accumulation requires the Senate to use a finite ground time to approve each civilian candidate separately with more than one roll call votes, as the Senate democrats hold hundreds of Battle to hundreds of Trump candidates. As a result, approximately 60% of the votes received in the Senate during the 119th Congress were nominated.
Thunde criticized the Senate Democrats for giving only a Trump civil candidate – Foreign Minister Marco Rubio for giving a faster approval. However, Rubio’s nomination was still subjected to a roller vote, although unanimously supporting his approval.
The majority leader also observed that at least in the second period of Trump, at least former president Herbert Hoover was the first president who has not been approved by voting or unanimously approved since a century ago.
“[This] He argues that the blocking level was the date and 100 years, Thunder Thune said to DCnf.
Despite Dale Marx, Trump’s Assistant Secretary of Defense to serve as the candidate accepted 72 votes – 18 came from democratic senators – forced the Senate Democrats to receive more than one vote to approve the Senate to support his candidacy on June 3. According to SRCC, democratic senators required KLOT votes for 18 other civil candidates who have received at least 60 votes to support their approval.

Washington, DC-10 June: Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD), Washington DC on June 10, 2025 at the US Capitol Building after a weekly republican policy lunch at a press conference. (Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Thune’s forcing Trump’s team to fulfill the team, the majority leader is the shepherd of the president’s comprehensive tax bill and other GOP -supported legislation on the Senate floor.
The Senate confirmed five civil candidates last week, including Long, in addition to voting in the last passage of the big crypto legislation and revealing texts in key committees that will form important parts of Trump’s “great, beautiful bill”.
In a speech on the Senate floor in May, Thunde criticized the blockage of the Democrats, said that if his colleagues did not consent to accelerated approvals for two -party -supported elections, he was ready to approve the candidates of Trump as a “difficult way ..
The majority leader was based on this threat, saying that DCNF would consider keeping the Senate in a session on weekends, or that the democrats would continue their planned recess periods to approve more candidates if they did not have mercy on delay tactics.
However, Thunde said that he should first pass the “big, beautiful” bill.
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