EXCLUSIVE: John Thune Says Dems’ Unprecedented ‘Obstruction’ Will Cost Them Next Time They’re In Power

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, said to the Democrats to think twice before continuing their slow deliberation of the candidates of President Donald Trump.

Thune moves at a quick pace to set up the president’s team despite the Senate Democrats who seek to delay the confirmation process of almost all the president’s candidates. The head of the majority, who argued that the last six months of “obstruction” of the Democrats have little precedent, suggested that the party would pay a price the next time they take power – if they do not savor. (Related: Senator Dem blocks hundreds of Trump candidates using a tactic he called “abuse of power”)

“If they put this back as a new previous one, whenever they receive the White House again and the Senate, it will really become ugly,” Thune said in the Daily Call News Foundation in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. “It is difficult to justify and defend a practice they use today which is literally unprecedented in history.”

“No president of history has reached this point in their presidency and has not had a candidate confirmed by unanimous consent or vocal vote,” continued Thune, referring to the methods that the Democrats prevented the Republicans of the Senate from using to direct the votes of calls to approve the president’s candidates.

Thune spoke to the DCNF the day after the Senate follows, confirming the president’s 100th civil candidate. The upper room confirmed four additional people on Wednesday, almost doubling the confirmation rate of the first Trump administration, which only made 53 confirmed civil candidates on July 23, according to Senate Republican Communications Center (SRCC).

It is a notable achievement for the Senate under the direction of Thune, which has taken fewer hidden and expressed more votes than any recent memory congress. The Upper Chamber took more call votes in 2025 than any Senate in the past 35 years, according to data compiled by the SRCC in July.

Thune, however, expressed his frustration for months with democrats who sought to make the confirmation process as exhausting as possible – even for candidates for lower level steering branches which would probably have obtained rapid confirmation during previous congresses.

The road dams of the Democrats are the worst they have ever been, according to Thune. The management of the GOP Senate was forced to burn a finished floor time to treat each candidate individually since the first days of the administration given the blocking of Democrats with positions confirmed by the Democrats.

“Historically, there has always been an effort on the sides to find ways to work together and put people in positions, and these are important positions that must be filled, but the jams are simply obstructed,” Thune told DCNF.

According to the SRCC. However, the Democrats have always forced the upper chamber to take a series of rooting votes approving each candidate on all these choices, but individuals obtain bipartite support at the level of the committee and in the Senate.

The Democrats of the Senate did not point out that they would change their courses despite an increasing stack of candidates: more than 100 of the president’s choices are in limbo while waiting for a consideration on the ground.

Washington, DC-July 22: The chief minorities of the American Senate, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (R), talks about Whip of the Senate, Senator Richard Durbin (’-il) listens to a press briefing after the Senate democratic policy. (Photo of Alex Wong / Getty Images)

Trump took note of his languid candidates and put pressure on the majority leader to accelerate the pace of his team’s approval. The president urged Thune to cancel the recess of August to cring confirmation votes in an article on the social media platform Truth Social on Saturday.

Thune pointed out throughout the week that all the options were on the table, in particular to give up the annual work period of the state of August. Legislators have traditionally used this time to meet voters from their states of origin and collect funds among other activities.

“The president is very concentrated at the moment on obtaining his names [nominees] done, and we too, ”said Thune to the DCNF.

“They did it [slow-walking nominees] From the start, “said the majority of the majority of the Senate on Wednesday John Barrasso.” We will continue to push and if it means staying in August, we will do it. “”

Thune hinted that its threat of maintaining the Senate in session in August could encourage the Democrats to conclude an agreement which would allow rapid confirmations of some of the candidates of the Mass.

The majority leader noted that there was a precedent for a mid-year agreement. During the first Trump administration, the Senate confirmed more than five dozen Trump candidates by unanimous consent shortly before the recess in August in July 2017.

Thune also pointed out that the Republicans are not likely to forget the hard movements of the Democrats if its counterparts refuse to break the logjam.

“If you look at the previous one, and even what we have done to [former President Joe] Biden, when he ran with that four years ago, then you return to `Trump One ” in the August break, they made it [deals] To try to bring people to these important positions, “said Thune.” We just want to see at least a certain reflection of what was the past in work with the other side of the names. “”

The anger of the way in which the Democrats of the Senate treated the president’s candidates seems to boil throughout the republican conference. However, several GOP senators refused to answer Wednesday if the Republicans run the same manual the next time the Democrats took control of the Senate and the White House.

“This is an unprecedented level of obstruction of the Democrats,” said the Missouri republican senator Eric Scmitt at the DCNF. “They haven’t learned anything from past elections.”

Andi Shae Napier contributed to this report.

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