US Senate Republicans invoked the nuclear option on Thursday to speed up the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees.
The 53-45 vote came after nearly five hours of bipartisan talks. Senate Democrats slow-walked President Trump’s nominees for over six months now despite being the minority party in the Senate chamber.
John Thune released a chart in early September that shows civilian nominees confirmed by unanimous consent collapsing from 817 under H.W. Bush to 1,100 under Clinton, then steadily declining, down to 0 in Trump’s second term. Democrats are doing all they can to thwart the will of the people.
Senate Republicans are now on track to confirm four dozen Trump nominees in the next week.
Grace Chong added this, “The nuclear option allows Senate Majority Leader John Thune to group an unlimited number of sub-Cabinet nominees into a single bloc. It’s a dramatic overhaul of the chamber’s rules that comes amid a historic Democratic slow-walking effort.”
It looks like President Trump will finally have his support team in place.
It took Senate Majority Leader John Thune months to act – but he finally got it done.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said last week the Senate may change the rules to confirm the backlog of President Trump’s judicial nominees.
In July President Trump called on Thune to cancel August recess to get his judicial nominees confirmed.
Thune refused to cancel the senator’s monthlong vacation but he did invoke the nuclear option when he returned.
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