Posted on 07/10/2025 6:40:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Thune and the Senate GOP’s slow-as-molasses confirmation of Trump’s executive appointments is a choice.
A day after Donald Trump assumed the Oval Office for the second time, Senate Majority Leader John Thune went to the Senate floor to pledge that he would do whatever it takes to confirm the returning president’s executive appointments.
“As I’ve repeatedly said, Senate Republicans are ready to work as long as needed to confirm President Trump’s nominees. Nights. Weekends. Recesses,” the South Dakota Republican wrote in an X post including his remarks.
As it turns out, that was a load of horse manure.
It is now July and there are currently more than 120 Trump nominees awaiting confirmation by the U.S. Senate. This exhaustive list includes pivotal appointments such as Matthew Lohmeier to be under secretary of the Air Force and Joe Kent to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
As The Federalist’s Rachel Bovard previously observed, while cabinet secretaries “are certainly important … everyone in Washington knows agencies’ sub-Cabinet-level officers and below are just as critical to executing the president’s agenda.” Having seen how the entrenched bureaucracy worked to sabotage Trump’s first term, Bovard noted, “most Republican voters now understand how critical these appointees are.”
Unfortunately, Senate Republicans do not. As Americans have already witnessed, there are real consequences to the party’s unwillingness to rapidly confirm the president’s nominees.
When Pope Leo XIV was sworn in as the new head of the Catholic Church earlier this year, for example, the U.S. didn’t have an official ambassador to send to the Holy See. Why? Because Senate Republicans didn’t confirm Trump nominee Brian Burch to the position. They still haven’t.
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Has Trump had any judges confirmed at all? I haven’t heard of any vacancies being filled like at all
I’d love to hear a “great, sucking sound” primarying these useless RINOpottamuses next spring.
“Has Trump had any judges confirmed at all? I haven’t heard of any vacancies being filled like at all”
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
The resistance. Yeah, the guys we were told to vote for because at least their better than a dem, because there was no other reason to vote for them. Turns out that wasnt one either.
Same crap they pulled in 2017...
The communists get their nominees done within a few months when they own the WH...
We’re seeing the effect of the biden administration communists’ prompt actions now in the form of all these unconstitutional delays to Trump’s actions...
All the while the feckless and impotent GOP crap keeps fracking around...
The people who reelect RINOs are just as much at fault as the RINOs themselves.
The options are simple.
Option #1: Reelect the RINO and allow them to inflict massive damage for the next 20-30 years.
Option #2: Allow the RINO to lose in the general and replace them with a more conservative senator or representative in the next election cycle.
Someone(s) had better get in gear here. This is no way to run the government. What is the real problem here? Too many people making promises they have no intention of keeping? Of course if you fire someone for not doing their job, then that’s one more you need to replace. Apparently, faithful employees are getting very hard to find these days. Must be as huge shortage of real honest Americans here or else there are other reasons they can’t run for an office. Me...I’m too old & retired.
Thune is human garbage like his predecessor. You really have to try hard to be as big a scumbag as a US Senator.
Doesn’t Lindsey run the judiciary now and Trump just endorsed the clown you’d think he would kinda help trump out a little bit when he isn’t visiting certain bars in the dc area
Don’t they need 60 votes?
“a load of horse manure”
Never forget that Thune was an understudy of Mitch “the Turtle” McConnell.
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