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Senate Republicans are getting closer to changing the rules of the House of Lords to allow a large number of presidents Donald Trump’s Lower-level nominees will be confirmed and they are closing the Democrats’ proposal to recover.
The hope among Republicans is that using tools that Senate Democrats once considered would prevent them from turning to “nuclear choice,” meaning a simple majority vote would change the rules.
“Democrats should support it because we are continuing to implement the initial proposal.” John BarrassoR-Wyo. Tell Fox News Digital. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t. This historic obstacle for Democrats is for their remote liberals who hate President Trump.”
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Senate Republicans began a Democratic proposal many years ago to change the Senate rules to the nominee for President Donald Trump through a Senate Democratic blockade. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Republicans will meet throughout the week of the lockdown to discuss their options and start combining around a proposal that will allow them to vote to confirm a group of nominees known as “En Bloc” for small-question-level positions.
So far, the only nominee to easily pass the Senate is Secretary of State Marco Rubio in January. Since then, various positions throughout the bureaucracy have piled up without voice vote or unanimous consent, two commonly used quick training programs for low-level positions in government.
Senate Majority Leader John ThuneRs.D., said, in Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.
“This is the first president in history, and at this point in his presidency, at least not a nominee by unanimous consent or voice vote,” he said. “It’s unprecedented, what they’re doing. Must stop.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Rs., heads to the Senate Conference Hall in Washington, DC on January 22, 2025 (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The number of nominees on the Senate calendar continues to rise, awaiting confirmation of the 149th pick this week. The goal is to make the rule change a week before lawmakers leave town starting on September 22.
The idea comes from legislation proposed by Sens in 2023. Amy KlobucharD-Minn. , Angus King, I-Maine and former Senator Ben Cardin, D-Md. Republicans are focusing on their own spins, such as not limiting the number of prominent nominees in a group or excluding judicial candidates.
Republicans prefer to avoid nuclear energy – the last time they used nuclear options was in 2019, when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).
However, they may only show resistance publicly.
A senior Republican aide familiar with the negotiations told Fox News Numbers, “Democrats privately support what Republicans are talking about.” “They are too afraid to admit it.”
Senator James Lankford, who worked with Thune and Barrasso, had established consensus on recommendations for rules change, told Fox News Digital that his Democratic colleagues acknowledged they “created an unsustainable precedent.”
This idea comes from D-Minn. legislation proposed by Senator Amy Klobuchar in 2023. (Bloomberg/Getty)
“But then they’ll say, ‘But my base of progress screams and wants me to fight. I know I’m hurting the Senate, but I have to show that I’m fighting.”
“We mean, I mean, I mean,” Rankford continued. “Some of my colleagues said, ‘We are not people who are nuclearing. They are people who are nuclearing.'”
Klobuchar told Fox News Digital that she thanked her previous work with Lankford for “making the Senate better” but was not ready to fall behind the Republican version of the legislation.
“When I brought this up, it meant as legislation, which means you’re going to need a bipartisan vote and the reason that isn’t happening right now is because the president has been showing off the law.”
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However, not every Senate Democrat is under a wholesale blockade.
senator John FettmanD-Pa. Tell Fox News Digital that lawmakers should act in the way of a Republican or Democratic executive to get nominees for “these basic considerations.”
“That’s not resistance,” he said. “I just think it’s a kind of person that doesn’t help. I mean, you can object to people like adults, whether it’s [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.] Kennedy or someone else. ”
Fox News Digital contacted Schumer’s office for comment, but did not hear immediately.
