Joe Scarborough Mocks Bill Cassidy, Claims His Legacy Will Be Marred by Decisive Votes on Trump Nominees: ‘What Was It Worth?’
Scarborough said Cassidy’s votes for Todd Blanche and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will damage his legacy after both nominees won narrow Senate support.
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Total 'impotence': How Trump broke wounded Republicans
President Donald Trump has a remarkable tendency to humiliate and politically ruin Republican lawmakers who stand up to him, and then still rely on those same legislators to do his bidding. On Monday, a conservative writer analyzed two of the most conspicuous cases of Trump doing this — with Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.“I missed the news last week that a U.S. senator has a book coming out in October titled ‘…
Joe Scarborough Mocks Bill Cassidy, Claims His Legacy Will Be Marred by Decisive Votes on Trump Nominees: ‘What Was It Worth?’
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough mocked Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) for casting the key vote to confirm Todd Blanche as U.S. attorney general, jibing that the Republican senator’s legacy “in history” would be marred by his backing of both Blanche and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Blanche, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, was narrowly confirmed by just one vote overnight on Saturday, ending a months-long standoff betwee…
Senate clears 74 Trump nominees in a single vote, leaving fewer than a dozen unconfirmed
Senate Republicans confirmed 74 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in one party-line vote Friday, wiping out nearly all pending civilian nominations and putting the administration on pace for the fastest confirmation record in a quarter century. The 51-47 vote marked the fifth time the GOP majority has used an en bloc process, bundling dozens of...
Senate Confirms 74 Trump Nominees in Single Vote
Senate Republicans confirmed 74 of President Trump's nominees in one package vote Friday, wiping out roughly 95 percent of the civilian backlog, and leaving Democrats with little more than complaints about loyalty. The 51-47 party-line vote marked the fifth time the GOP majority has used an en bloc confirmation process since changing Senate rules to speed lower-level presidential appointments. The package included executive officials across the …
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