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... and, with a 52-46 vote, invoked cloture on the nomination process of Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence. If the Dems use all of the 30 allowable hours for blah-blah-blah, she'll be confirmed just past midnight on Wednesday morning. If they don't, around 7 PM this evening.
Immediately following Gabbard's confirmation vote, cloture will be invoked on the nomination of RFJ Jr. for HHS. Depending on the aforementioned Dem behavior, he'll be confirmed either Wednesday evening or in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
PS:
Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on sending Kash Patel out for a full vote in the Senate. I imagine a similar "clock" will start ticking on his nomination. So, by close of Monday at the latest, it looks like Trump will have DNI, HHS, and FBI heads in place.
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We are 20% of the way through Trump's first 100 days and the GOP has done very little. Few confirmations and now talk of a CR for the REST OF THE YEAR. With a GOP like this, who needs enemies?
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Not only that, but at least one of those three is probably worth having.
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Meanwhile, acting appointees are cheerfully firing and reshuffling below the water line pending appointee appointees.
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Since FDR, at least, hasn't the President usually made strong announcements about what he wants Congress to enact, and had allies in Congress lined up to take the lead in pushing the legislation? Isn't that the way LBJ got things done in Congress? Wasn't he constantly on the phone with members of Congress, cajoling and whatever.
It's not the ideal that the Founders had in mind when they created the three branches, but it's not really unconstitutional to go about it this way, either.
I don't know this history very well, so maybe I don't understand all the ways a President usually gets his agenda through Congress. There might be people here on Ricochet who know more. But if nothing is getting done, maybe President Trump needs to get off his lazy a** and get to work on this.
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