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Senate confirms 48 of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the chamber’s rules (apnews.com)

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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.

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[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 129 points 4 weeks ago

Obama had thousands of unconfirmed appointees because Republicans blocked them for his entire term

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 70 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Sure. That's because Democrats are political morons and spinless assholes.

Even now, spineless.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 22 points 4 weeks ago

No, complicit.

We need to stop pretending Democrats are constantly getting "outplayed" or "surrendering". Their goal is to put on a good enough show that we feel like we have representation while ensuring that their billionaire donors get everything they want.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 18 points 4 weeks ago

they also had 10 DINOS at the time to vote against them.

[-] Krono@lemmy.today 19 points 4 weeks ago

And party leadership should whip DINOS into shape.

Instead, the party consistently coddles and enables them.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

It's failure theater. They're all still getting fucking paid.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

Now they have so many more.

[-] BlueCanoe@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure that headline is misleading and it was a non-binding resolution passed without a formal vote

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 30 points 4 weeks ago

Mitch mcconnel and gingrich were spearheading those blocks.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 weeks ago

gingrich

Goddammit, you just reminded me that ghoul is still alive.

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