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Senate Republicans confirm more than 100 Trump nominees as government shutdown continues
Senate Republicans used a recent rules change to confirm 107 Trump nominees in a party-line vote, overcoming Democratic delays and advancing key administration appointments during the shutdown.
- On Tuesday, Senate Republicans confirmed 107 nominees in a 51-47 party-line vote as the government shutdown entered its seventh day.
- After months of Democratic delays, Senate Republicans used the 'nuclear option' last month to allow bulk confirmations by simple majority, responding to slow-walking that blocked unanimous consent.
- The batch included more than two dozen ambassadors and 16 U.S. attorneys, with Herschel Walker and Sergio Gor confirmed as ambassadors and Kurt Wall saying `I am extremely grateful to President Donald Trump for this opportunity to serve`.
- The move reduced pending nominees to 26 and raised Trump 2.0 confirmations to 298, advancing President Donald Trump's administration staffing, Senate Republicans said.
- Political scientist Norman Ornstein called the confirmations `appalling` and `unprecedented`, while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said `the kind of people... confirmed so far this year have been unprecedentedly bad.
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'I am actually stunned': Political scientist shocked at Senate GOP’s 'unprecedented' move
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Senate Confirms Over 100 Trump Nominees Amid Shutdown
Senate Republicans confirmed 107 of President Trump’s nominees in a sweeping party-line vote even as the federal government remains in partial shutdown. That batch included ambassadors, senior executive officials, prosecutors, and the reappointment of SEC Chair Paul Atkins. The confirmations represent a major push to install Trump administration officials across key federal agencies, continuing the president’s long-term reshaping of the executiv…
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