Washington – Republican skepticism in the Senate of the nominees for President Donald Trump’s office was used, which caused unconventional elections for some of the most powerful positions in the federal government on the verge of confirmation.
This week, votes are expected on the floors of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in line as the Secretary of Health of the Country, and Tulsi Gabbard, the election of the national intelligence director. Both come from classic republican circles and were in favor of views in the process of confirmation, which sometimes worried GOP senators. Despite this, their nominations advanced to the full senate after the key votes of the commission.
One after the other, the Republicans agreed to Trump types, even those whose personal history, lack of experience and unconventional views would once be an unexpected office for them.
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It is a striking demonstration of how GOP legislators are standing Like Trump, in the strength show, disturbs the federal government and installs loyalists to conduct key departments. Republican leaders in the Senate, willing to show Trump to their value, ignited confirmations with a quick clip.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, only a month in this role, set the vote in Gabbard as the first business order, and then Kennedy this week. Already at work is the Secretary of Defense Pete HegeSth, who stood in the face of allegations of drinking and aggressive behavior towards women. And the Republicans seem ready to install Kash Patel soon as the FBI director.
These four nominees have long been seen on the Capitol as the most susceptible to the loss of the support of Republicans who maintain the majority of the Senate in three places.
“There are never any guarantees, but we are popular in the right direction,” said Thune, rs.d., when the Senate finished his work on Thursday evening, and dozens of Republicans went to do Trump Mar-A-Lago to meet the president at the weekend.
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Thune’s cautious optimism took place a week in which the prospect of republican opposite sense. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Todd Young from Indiana – they both tried to maintain independence from Trump – threatened to derail Kennedy and Gabbard. But after a series of intensive phone calls and negotiations conducted by vice president JD Vance, even at the times preceding the votes of the committee on Tuesday, the novel management team convinced key stops.
They both left the conversations, saying that the nominees would stop some of their more disturbing views.
The fall of resistance gave a novel tone in the government controlled by republicans and showed how even the most independent legislator would prefer to work with Trump than to risk it. Trump himself refrained from threats for GOP skeptics who defined his first term and relied on Vance, former Ohio senator, to quietly lead some of his former colleagues through their fears.
“You can’t think about how a normal president who for the first time at the office,” said Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-okla, who was involved in efforts to get Trump nominated by Trump at the finish. “Everyone with whom I was dealing with was really undecided, trying to reach yes, so it was only a process.”
It wasn’t always uncomplicated.
Cassidy, a liver, told Kennedy during the interrogation that he was “fighting” to support the nomination because Kennedy built the vaccine as a skeptic and refused to condemn the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. Cassidy quoted his ethics as a doctor – “devoting my life to saving life” – as the main reason for his concern.
Young, a former intelligence officer in the sea corps, questioned the previous statements that Gabbard made, including support for the government leak of Edward Snowden and expressions of compassion for Russia. Young said he was looking for Gabard’s written assurances, that he would punish those who would reveal a sensitive government intelligence. Vance played a key role, mediating in Lisk from Gabard, who defined these assurances.
“I got them at 11 hours,” Young said after the voting of the committee on Gabbard.
Young said that Vance approached him with a “full respect” tone and “listened to much more than he said.”
This is a change compared to the term of the Vance Senate, when he often opposed the leadership of GOP under the command of Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell. Now Vance is closely working with the novel team.
A similar process played with Cassida. He said that he voted in favor of Kennedy’s development after “intense conversations” and recovery, how health agencies would cope with vaccine recommendations. The senator thanked Vance for his “honest advice.”
Cassidy and Young insisted that the political rainfall from blocking Trump’s office would not take into account their negotiations, but the rates were clear. Cassidy, who has been ready for re -election for two years, already has the main claimant after voting to convict Trump on charges of impeachment in 2021 resulting from the role of Trump in the riots in the capitol.
Senator Kevin Cramer, RN.D., said that regardless of whether Trump offers senators such as Cassidy or the adolescent support of the campaign, no Republican wants to openly oppose the president.
“I think Donald Trump in his heart is ultimately a transactional guy,” said Cramer, adding: “Will you ever gain support without an active enemy. It can be quite effective, as you know and is proven, so nobody wants to be in this place. “
This makes the democrats almost powerless to stand on the road to choose the Trump’s office. With republican support, the Democrats did not have appeal, but to draw this process by every possible procedural movement. They also try to keep the Senate floor for the maximum debate time to sluggish down the pace of votes.
Senator Richard Blimenthal, D-Conn, said that he hopes that the tactics would pay attention to the extension of the presidential power of Trump and facilitate “convince the American nation to express the indignation of Congress members, especially from the Red States, where their senators do not want so far or they couldn’t listen. “
