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If this comes at the cost of moving spending proposals so be it. It is not certain the Trump will be reelected or that the GOP will hold the Senate. Move the judges onto the court.
It is not like the house will pass anything trump would sign.
About time they approved appointees, we’re only two years in..
Excellent! Go, Mitch, help President Trump MAGA!
since the dems and their stakeholders seem to think they should sue anything that the US stands for, Constitutional judges are of utmost important!
Congress, including the Republicans, have been slow-walking every single Trump appointee. Last I heard there are over 200 people awaiting confirmation for jobs that they were appointed to 2 years ago. That’s a disgrace. The bigger disgrace is Republican inaction on the border and even some who voted against the Emergency declaration. Just think what good things for this country could have been accomplished if the Republicans supported Trump’s agenda, and the dems goal wasn’t total resistance.
Such a shortsighted premise to this article. “Getting nominees through comes at the expense of legislative priorities.” That is absolutely false!!
Name me ONE, SINGLE priority that the GOP could pass that some left wing judge somewhere won’t overturn. The Left wing State Attorney’s General simply run to a forum shopped activist judge and that is that. Lil Johnny Roberts won’t grant any kind of immediate relief meaning that the forum shopped judge’s ruling is the law of the land until the year it takes to work its way to the Supreme Court.
Judicial nominations ARE entie ballgame and the left knows it. They rely on the Courts to enshrine as law what The One did with a pen and phone. This must stop or we have nothing but a permanent leftist government of judges and Deep State activists.
“At the expense of any big legislative priorities” how? Which of these “big legislative priorities” would pass the Pelosi House?
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Dumb article is dumb.
The Democrats have the House and are not going to give Trump a win on any part of his agenda.
The Senate working on nominees that only it has the power to confirm is a far better use of its time than working on bills that have no hope of making it through the other chamber.
Two sorry specimens of politico.
President Trump should be enjoying a hearty laugh.
1) They can’t do any serious legislation without the House. All the senate can do is judges and personnel.
That’s not bad.
2) They are backed up so much, it’s gonna take a year to get caught up anyway.
With two hours of the beat per candidate, McConnell should be getting at least four approve each day. Even two would be an improvement. His goal should be to clear the backlog immediately, even at the expense of all other legislation. This is especially important since the Republicans in the Senate won’t back Trump up on legislation, when it counts. So the least they can do is get all of these nominees immediately approved.
“But Trump’s promises to replace the Affordable Care Act, invest in infrastructure or cut middle class taxes have been essentially shelved”
makes total sense: All GOP legislation from the Senate will fail in the House. Period. Better to do what you can with what you go rather than tilting at windmills like the House is doing ...
The House seems to have already decided that they won’t do a budget/regular appropriations anyway, and won’t agree to any realistic new legislation anyway, so the Senate may as well catch up on their housekeeping.
Focus on the border, Mitch.
In their almost 100 days, the Demonic-Rats have accomplished absolutely NOTHING of any consequence.
They have passed silly, unbinding resolutions and had their one vengeful piece of legislation vetoed by POTUS.
Nancy has NOTHING planned and Nancy’s boss, ALex-O-Cortez can’t introduce her New Green Deal, so given that all bills must originate in the House, Senate Leader McConnell might as well get on with JUDICIAL CONFIRMATIONS AND ALL OTHER CONFIRMATIONS that have been waiting for up to 2 years!
And they will take up wall funding after the last Mid-Term, right Mitch?
If the Senate can’t do more than one thing at once, pick confirmation.
The Republicans don’t control the House so those spending and other bills wouldn’t pass anyway. What the Senate can do is RAM IN all of Trump’s nominees. I’m glad to see the Turtle focusing on getting this done.