Donald Trump is staffing his administration to implement his America First agenda, and is warning Republican U.S. Senators that he will not be stopped in that mission as several critical nominations come before the United States Senate.
Even though Donald Trump also won a resounding victory in 2016, his nominees before were rejected by the then Republican-controlled U.S. Senate repeatedly. Already, Trump’s nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz was withdrawn due to Senate opposition.
Learning from those setbacks, the Trump White House has warned the Republicans-in-Name Only in the U.S. Senate that they will face “consequences” if they attempt to prevent Trump from seating the government he was given a mandate in this past election to create.
The next week features several high-profile Trump nominations coming up before the U.S. Senate, controlled by a 53-47 margin by the Republicans:
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Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary, and
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Kash Patel for FBI director.
Kennedy has a hearing before the Senate on Wednesday, and Patel has a hearing on Thursday.
A senior White House official was quoted by NBC News as saying about Republican Senators, “It’s pass-fail. You either support everyone or you don’t. The Senate needs to advise and consent, not advise and adjust.”
The unnamed official warned that outside pressure groups are ready to support the President’s nominees and will ‘exact consequences’ to those who obstruct the President’s key nominations.
RINO Senators are floating to the mainstream media that they might start voting down Trump’s nominees.
The recent nomination of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth passed on a 50-50 majority with Vice President J.D. Vance casting the tie-winning vote, due to the defections of Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.
The same trifecta of RINOs is threatening to sink the Tulsi Gabbard nomination, with additional Senators John Curtis of Utah, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, John Thune of South Dakota, have all indicated that they are reluctant to confirm Gabbard, a two-tour combat veteran.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being opposed by former Trump Vice President Mike Pence. Pence betrayed Trump during the certification of the vote in 2020 on January 6th and has been busy giving speeches and undermining Trump ever since. Pence has been lobbying Senators to oppose Trump’s nomination of Kennedy because of his pro-abortion stances. Kennedy has pledged to promote pro-life policies within the department. Pro-Abortion groups and supposedly pro-life Mike Pence agree: oppose Robert Kennedy.
Media leader Steve Bannon has described Senator McConnell as a “ticking time bomb” about Trump’s nominees, and said that his opposition to Kennedy is because McConnell “…feeds at the trough of the biopharmaceutical industry.” Kennedy is a known public opponent of the pharmaceutical industry.
One Republican Senator, demanding anonymity to NBC News, was quoted being dismissive towards Trump by saying, “We’ll only give so much, because this is the future of the country. It’s not entertainment television.”
McConnell and Collins are both up for re-election in 2026 and could be primaried if they continue to obstruct President Trump. McConnell won his primary with 83% in 2020, and with 60% in 2014. Collins was unopposed in both 2020 and 2014.
Videos online show Senator McConnell ‘freezing’ momentarily during press events over the past two years, typically then supported by staffers. These Biden-tier dementia episodes suggest he would not be able to campaign strongly and effectively. McConnell is expected to retire rather than run for another term.
Murkowski is not up for re-election until 2028. Alaska approved the corrupt “Ranked Choice Voting” in 2020 and have used it since that election. Ranked Choice voting allows Democrats to choose the most liberal Republicans in Republican-friendly jurisdictions. Murkowski won in 2022 with 53.7% of the vote in the general election against a Republican opponent who won 46.3%.
Many of the waffling Republicans are up for re-election in 2026 and would be vulnerable to a popular incumbent President.
Past Trump nominees told the Gateway Pundit that Mitt Romney and Rick Scott were the main Senate culprits stopping several of Trump’s first term nominees. Romney, they said, did so on principle to oppose the President, and Scott was bold enough to tell nominees that he did so at the behest of his major donors, who were strongly opposed to conservative nominations.
Romney’s replacement in the Senate, Utah Senator John Curtis, is seen as a waffling Republican vote for Tulsi Gabbard.
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