Posted on 10/08/2025 7:09:41 AM PDT by Twotone
The Senate confirmed 107 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a single vote on Tuesday evening, significantly clearing the backlog of the president’s picks awaiting floor consideration.
Senators voted along party lines to approve the large group of nominees, which included former football star and ex-Senate candidate Herschel Walker and former White House personnel director Sergio Gor. The mass confirmation of the president’s picks comes after Senate Republicans changed chamber precedent to expedite the confirmation process, citing months of unprecedented obstruction from Senate Democrats.
Trump has nearly 300 civilian nominees confirmed following the massive group vote.
The 107 individuals confirmed Tuesday include ambassadors, U.S. attorneys and assistant secretaries, who will staff vacant positions across the executive branch.
Walker will serve as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, while Gor will be Trump’s ambassador to India. The bloc of nominees also includes former President of the National Border Patrol Council Brandon Judd, who will serve as the U.S ambassador to Chile.
Trump’s undersecretary of the Navy nominee Hung Cao was originally supposed to be part of the bloc, but was confirmed individually on Oct. 1 due to opposition from Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Senate GOP leadership has limited the nominees who can be confirmed in a group vote to those who have the support of all Senate Republicans and pass out of committee with bipartisan support.
The Senate confirmed 48 of Trump’s nominees during an en bloc vote in September. The bloc included U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle and U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland Callista Gingrich.
Guilfoyle is the former Fox News personality and ex-fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. Mrs. Gingrich is the wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Trump, in his second term, is the first president in roughly a century to not have a single nominee confirmed via voice vote or unanimous consent. Democrats justified their delay tactics in the confirmation process by arguing that “historically bad nominees deserved historic levels of scrutiny.”
GILFOYLE IS THE 2nd EX-WIFE OF GAVIN NEWSOM
Too bad the "historically bad nominees the dems put forth and voted in didn't get the same treatment.
What hypocrites, constantly holding everyone up to standards they will not set for themselves.
Wouldn't that make it a bull?
I am disappointed in the Daily Caller for framing that in this fashion. What has been done to Trump's picks has been WHOLLY un-"precedented". THAT FACT should have been near the top.
Instead, the buried the lede in the VERY LAST paragraph:
"...Trump, in his second term, is the first president in roughly a century to not have a single nominee confirmed via voice vote or unanimous consent. Democrats justified their delay tactics in the confirmation process by arguing that “historically bad nominees deserved historic levels of scrutiny.”
I really don't like that they did that, and I am a fan of Just The News.
It’s quite the club. And you ain’t in it.
Spot on, metmom...spot on.
It is trans. The cow’s pronouns are steak and hamburger.
Glad Senate Republicans finally ended their vacation.
I see what you did there :)
There for a while in the ‘90s Walker plugged those shoes with the strange soles both Kramer and George wore on Seinfeld that were supposed to make you jump higher, but that made Mel Torme think Kramer was retarded.
Democrats justified their delay tactics in the confirmation process by arguing that “historically bad nominees deserved historic levels of scrutiny.
If that were true they wouldn’t be any democrats nominated ever.
Nice gig.
Hung Cao, y’know, like Elvis sang, Hung Cao Hung Cao burnin’ love...
Hung Cao is a bull. From Wiki:
“ He returned to the U.S. at age 12 and was a member of the first graduating class of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia.[8]
Cao entered the U.S. Navy as a seaman recruit in 1989 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in ocean engineering. In 2008,[9] he received a master’s of science in applied physics at the Naval Postgraduate School.[10] A specialist in ordnance disposal and salvage diving…”
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“ His military career encompassed operational deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Cao earned the Command Ashore Badge, the Navy Diving Officer Badge and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Warfare Officers Badge.”
“Democrats justified their delay tactics in the confirmation process by arguing that “historically bad nominees deserved historic levels of scrutiny.””
Unfortunately, Cao is such an “historically bad nominee.” Not nearly as qualified as a Rachel Levine or a Pete Buttigieg . . .
She must know lots of stuff about Gavin....hope the feds know where to look for all the criminal evidence....
I think she was Trump 45's Ambassador to the Vatican.
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