#senate confirmation

[onlytiktoks]

Dr. Oz dodges questions on Medicaid cuts at Senate confirmation hearing

Oz, Trump's pick for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, also said he supports Medicaid work requirements.

[eugenedebs1920]

Anyone else find it odd that our current president praises Putin and Orban, but insults and threatens our allies like Canada and Mexico? Sounds like the Canadians ain’t f*ckin around tho!

[superdriver321]

Under Biden's watch, our own government was pressuring Big Tech to censor Americans' free speech online - everything from COVID to our elections

Trump's CISA nom just pledged to get his agency OUT of the censorship business and back to protecting Americans from cyberattacks.

[deadpresidents]

Is there a chance that many of these cabinet picks don't get confirmed?

Don't forget that this country not only gave the Republicans control of the White House, but they also gave them a Senate majority and most likely will end up keeping them in charge of the House of Representatives, so they don't need a single Democrat to confirm ANY of these awful Cabinet appointments. The best possible hope is for some of the handful of Senate Republicans who are moderate-ish or still have a few ounces of integrity to oppose some of the crazier appointees. And there are going to be even less of those Senators left after January 3rd.

But this country, in its infinite fucking wisdom, gave Trump and the GOP a mandate, so they can pretty much do what they are planning on doing. That's why we spent the past couple of years reminding people how important the 2024 election was going to be for the rest of our lives. It's not like we can turn to the courts for help; Trump has locked down the judiciary for decades, as well, especially the Supreme Court.

And, here's the thing: I'm sure Trump realizes that it's pretty unlikely that Gaetz can get confirmed as Attorney General because he's enormously unpopular with his own colleagues in the GOP. A lot of Congressional Republicans despise him, and it's not even like with how most people in Congress hate Ted Cruz but grudgingly point out that he's effective at his job and actually a pretty smart dude. With Gaetz, they just think he's a clown and are happy to be rid of him. You can bet that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is going to put all of his efforts into defeating a possible confirmation of Gaetz as AG, and McCarthy still has significant influence in Congress because of his record as a major fundraiser for candidates in both chambers.

I bet Trump is throwing a couple of nominees out there that he knows can't get confirmed -- like Gaetz -- to make it easier to get potentially hesitant Republicans to confirm other controversial nominees, like Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary (!). It's like when Pablo Escobar would import a bunch of cocaine into the United States that he knew was going to get seized in order to sneak tons of it through sneakier means. They are decoy douchebags to distract from the other douchebags he's also putting into the Cabinet.

[victusinveritas]

They managed, at the last minute, to find someone less qualified.

One of my great uncles died of tuberculosis in 1938 at the age of 22. My hope is not to follow him to the grave with consumption in the next few years. That hope seems to be getting more and more slim as the weeks drag on.

[jacksproject2025]

Pam Bondi looks and sounds almost exactly like my mom so watching her shred Democrat Senators in her confirmation hearings has been extra based.

[dicapiito]

Any Senator who votes yes on RFK Jr is a racist tbh. Especially after this:

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ Pete Hegseth, the unqualified drunkard and sex abuser who's been nominated by Trump to run the Defense Department.

That bit about the "left-wing media" is hopelessly out of date. Hegseth's alcoholic haze may have caused his thinking to regress to the 1990s. Twitter/X, Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc.), and Fox News are run by high profile Trump ass kissers who lavish him with praise.