✅ CONFIRMED: 48 nominees of President Trump — THANK YOU!
pic.twitter.com/pzBLX51dZ3— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 18, 2025
Posted on 09/18/2025 4:23:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Late last week, Senate Republicans invoked the "nuclear option" to push through President Trump's nominees, after Senate Democrats dragged their feet on votes. In discussions prior to this, Senate Majority Leader John Thune noted, "It’s time to take steps to restore Senate precedent and codify in Senate rules what once was understood to be standard practice — and that is the Senate acting expeditiously on presidential nominations to allow a president to get his team into place."
Democrats complained, of course, with Chuck Schumer using this as an opportunity to claim Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat.
Today, the Senate voted under those new rules to confirm a group of 48 nominees in one fell swoop.
✅ CONFIRMED: 48 nominees of President Trump — THANK YOU!
pic.twitter.com/pzBLX51dZ3— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 18, 2025
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to approve dozens of nominees, acting on a rule change GOP leadership made last week that allows the chamber to confirm some of the president’s appointees in large batches instead of one at a time.
The 51-47 vote followed weeks of debate over whether senators could work out a deal on groups of nominees, with Democrats warning along the way that any changes to Senate procedures that benefit the Trump administration now will likely aid a future Democratic president.
“What Republicans have done is chip away at the Senate even more to give Donald Trump more power and to rubber-stamp whomever he wants, whenever he wants them, no questions asked,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said last week after Republicans initiated the rule change.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said during a floor speech Thursday a few hours before the vote that changing the rules was necessary after Democrats “fully broke the confirmation process.”
Some of the nominees include Theodore J. Garrish (assistant secretary of Energy), Jessica Kramer (assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency), Sean McMaster (administrator of the Federal Highway Administration), Justin Overbaugh (deputy under secretary of Defense), Scott Pappano (principal deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration), Peter Thomson (inspector general at the Central Intelligence Agency), and Andrea Travnicek (assistant secretary of the Interior).
Senators Jim Banks (R-IN) and Mike Lee (R-UT) did not vote.
This "nuclear option" doesn't include high-ranking judicial nominees, Supreme Court nominees, or Cabinet-level appointments.
Which 2 useless Republican Senators voted no to the change?
Writer’s who say “when the Dems have the Presidency” want that. Republicans that say it are stupid. If they had a spine a Dem wouldn’t win the WH for a long time.
That talk comes from the cowardly Pubs that blew the 1994 Dem wipeout.
Banks and Lee didn’t vote.
Yay, for once a positive action against the obstructionist democrats.
Where they even there? I know Lee, not Banks.
Finally the nuclear option used on the evil Dems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edi2Wkr5YI
I forgot that other guy was James Earl Jones.
RE: Where they even there? I know Lee, not Banks.
Dems, on the other hand, are not all there. 😜🤪
Should have done this months ago, but we’ll take it.
NOW we’re cooking with clean beautiful methane!
“”””Should have done this months ago, but we’ll take it.””
Maybe Thune had to “reach across the aisle” a few times and get his hand chewed off before he figured out you can’t negotiate with them.
More More MORE !
So he can’t stick his hand out for more donations and gave in?
Wow...restoring historical norms in the Senate is considered the ‘nuclear option’...
No where in the Constitution is there a requirement for a super majority in the Senate to confirm presidential nominees. No where in history was that the norm either.
Nominee included:
“Peter Thomson (inspector general at the Central Intelligence Agency)”
________________
PETER M. THOMSON
Member
New Orleans
Excerpt:
“Prior to joining Stone Pigman, Peter had a twenty-three year career as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served in the Organized Crime Strike Force. He also served on special assignment at the National Security Agency. In 2020, he was nominated by the President to be Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency. He testified before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was voted out favorably with unanimous consent. Following the 2020 Presidential election, his nomination was returned under the Senate Rules.”
https://www.stonepigman.com/attorneys-Peter-Thomson.html
Finally!
The filibuster 60-votes to pass rule is not mentioned in the words of the Constitution.
So, of course, that means the Senate isn’t restricted from invoking it as a rule.
That’s not how it’s supposed to work.
Every democrat scumbag voted NO, even though these are insignificant positions in government. None of the appointments are for life long roles. They can all be replaced in the next administration.
You never see the GOP prevent Rats from appointing their nominees for low ranking positions. The donkeys always sale thru.
Says the drunk who cost the Marxists the last election...
We're the stupid party.
I'll vote no on each nominee just on principle even if I'm not against the confirmation.
“””Every democrat scumbag voted NO, even though these are insignificant positions in government.”””””
30 years ago Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed 96-3.
Now every vote, no matter what position, is along party lines.
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