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Posted on 05/22/2025 6:11:33 PM PDT by CFW
The first American-born pope, Leo XIV, celebrated his inaugural Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square before a large crowd that included Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, two prominent Catholics in the Trump administration. Missing, however, was our country’s official envoy. When the new pope met with the Vatican’s diplomatic corps on Friday, America’s ambassador wasn’t there. We don’t have one right now.
Brian Burch has been nominated by President Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, but his is one of nearly 80 nominations now languishing on the Senate’s Executive Calendar. Last week, Senate Republicans tried to fast-track Burch’s nomination in time for Pope Leo’s inauguration. Democrats objected. So Republicans, despite having the power to overcome that objection simply by scheduling the vote on a Friday, shrugged and skipped town.
This is becoming a habit. After confirming Trump’s Cabinet in record time, the Republican-led Senate has returned to its traditional two-and-a-half-day work week and lackadaisical work ethic.
The Trump administration is waiting on all manner of assistant secretaries, under secretaries, deputy secretaries, general counsels, and financial officers. As of this writing, the comptroller of the currency and assistant secretary of the Treasury are both awaiting confirmation, as is the director of the Office of Personnel Management, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, the deputy secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, and the general counsels for the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development — among more than 50 others. The nominee to be the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has been sitting on the calendar since mid-March.
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GOP Senators: “You mean, like in working for a living? Coming in from the golf course or the heated swimming pool to do stuff all day long like the regular working people? If I wanted to do that I wouldn’t have gone into politics.”
Saw it the first time:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4318612/posts
Sometimes the ‘net is sluggish and it seems as though a post didn’t go through. Happened to me a few times.
Announcements need to be made to each Rino that there is a search in each state for MAGA replacements and each Maga candidate will have a 10 million dollar war chest from donations from multi-millionaires like Trump, etc..
John Thune is behind this. He’s trying to derail Trump.
Ankle biters.
It’s a redo of 2017 backstabbing.
They can’t. They have orders.
Going in to recess-— then all the nominees can be quickly appointed. Correct?
Not what you’d call “public servants”, are they?
“Brian Burch has been nominated by President Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See,”
I thought Trump gave that position to Newt’s wife.
“John Thune is behind this.”
From the get-go we were told Thune is Mitch’s bitch. Must be true
BTTT
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