Posted on 01/01/2017 7:39:12 PM PST by usafa92
Democratic senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March - an unprecedented break with Senate tradition.
Such delays would upend Republican hopes of quickly holding hearings and confirming most of Trump's top picks on Inauguration Day. But Democrats, hamstrung by their minority status, are determined to slow-walk Trump's picks unless they start disclosing reams of personal financial data they've withheld so far, according to senior aides.
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that Democrats will hone in especially on Rex Tillerson, Trump's choice for secretary of state; Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Trump's choice for attorney general; Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., tapped to lead the Office of Management and Budget; and Betsy DeVos, set to serve as education secretary.
There's also Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and oversee changes to Obamacare, who is set to be attacked by Democrats for his support for privatizing Medicare. Andrew Puzder, a restaurant executive set to serve as labor secretary, will face scrutiny for past comments on the minimum wage, among other policies. Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner set to serve as treasury secretary, and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, Trump's pick to lead the EPA, will also be the focus of Democratic attacks, aides said.
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Let me guess, the one’s that identify themselves as committed Christians?
Release the harpies!
Dog bites man—beltway politics as usual.
Do they even have the power to do this ? Turtle neck is the one who controls when a vote comes to the floor and the committee chairmen determine how long the hearings will be. If the democrats don't like it, they can boycott the hearings. In that case, who cares ( besides the MSM )
Time to go nuclear. Right Harry Reid? Aint that a bitch.
Chuckie calling Trump’s cabinet rigged. What is he saying?
Good point.
yup!...throw a tantrum and slow walk everything......shut down the Government!.....Let the American people see just how childish, petty and pompous u can really be......2018 should be a really good year for you...
What the demoncraps do is irrelevant. It all comes down to the GOP.
Time to light a fire under the political scum with calls, letters and emails.
I’m hoping they might listen to us at least a bit.
It’s time to play as dirty as we are being treated. With Trump’s resources, he should be able to get the goods on most of these speed bumps.
The DemonRATs are playing with our Nation’s future as if they are playing a football game. This constant adversarial role is something you would expect from Communist. Oh! I forgot! They are Communists!
Nominees go through a Committee.
Like the Senate, committees are closely divided by Party and a RINO can keep the nomination in committee by siding with the Dems- and get a lot of great media coverage for doing so.
I don’t think the Turtle would punish anyone for doing that. Maybe the House would cut some of their pork to punish them, it’s a thought anyway.
Well, the RATS have to pretend to put up a fight to avoid the torches and pitchforks of their base who want their scalps.
I’m relaxed they will get special manilla envelopes the mornings of the confirmations hearings and things will go quite smoothly.
Well, the RATS have to pretend to put up a fight to avoid the torches and pitchforks of their base who want their scalps.
I’m relaxed they will get special manilla envelopes the mornings of the confirmations hearings and things will go quite smoothly.
Well, that will change. Schumer has been very nice to Trump up front, but it is an act. I assume Trump will catch on, but he does love his ego being stroked.
Democrats view the confirmation process for republican nominees as a chance to assassinate the character of the nominee and to raise donations from faithful leftists.
They strut like peacocks before the leftist press to demonstrating how they carry the torch of radicalism and anti-Americanism right into the chambers of the senate.
For example, the democrats can have 30 hours of hearings for each nominee, if they choose and they probably will. That is just one thing, but since they can't vote them down, the dems will take all the time in the world. That is how it works.
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