‘We’re Not Obstructing’: Dems Flat Out Deny They Are Blocking Trump’s Noms
The Democrats of the Senate defend their unprecedented The slow march of the candidates of President Donald Trump, arguing that no obstruction takes place – Despite the promulgation on several occasions of road dams several times intended to make the confirmation process increasingly brutal.
The Democratic Caucus, under the direction of the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, uses a variety of dropout tactics to prevent one of the presidents of the president – which require a confirmation of the Senate – to be quickly approved on the ground. Six Democrats of the Senate told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday that the blockade of the appointments of their party did not influence the confirmation process despite the confirmation process despite more than 150 of the president’s candidates while currently waiting for a consideration per floor. (Related: “Everything is being studied”: the GOP of the Senate promises an action to vaporize demons “obstruction)
“We do not watch. We vot – I have just voted literally,” Michigan Democrat Senator Gary Peters said on Thursday at Daily Caller News Foundation following a series of Roll call votes during which he opposed the confirmation of one of the president’s choices – and the progress of another candidate. “”The work of the Senate is to provide advice and consent to candidates, and that is what we do. »»
“The rules have been respected,” said the independent senator of Maine, Angus King, who caucus with the Democrats, at the DCNF. “”Look at the record. How many candidates have been approved at this stage in history under Trump One, Biden and Trump two? And if we get the same figures, then it is difficult for me to see that there is this serious problem. “”
The Senate confirmed about twice as many civil candidates during the president’s second term on August 1 compared to the first Trump administration. However, the Senate Republicans argue that this number must be considered in the context of the Democrats’ decision to make a head of each candidate that the President proposed – in contrast with their actions during his first mandate.
Trump, in his second term, is the first president never registered not to have a single candidate confirmed by vocal vote or unanimous consent at this stage of his presidency. Former President Joe Biden saw around 40% of his choices confirmed by unanimous consent or vocal vote on August 1. During Trump’s first term, more than 78 of his named people had obtained an accelerated confirmation process before the High -Day Chamber for its August recreation.
The decision of the Democrats to drag their feet on almost all the choices of the president made the Republicans of the Furious Senate who argue that the delay tactics of their counterparts undermine decades of previous ones in the upper room to quickly confirm the candidates of lower, relatively non -controversial.
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, regularly held votes in the night to continue to go through the appointments, but the roadblocks of the Democrats have considerably slowed down the process and prevented the president of his administration quickly. SThe people appointed by the president who were favorably reported outside the committee more than 100 days ago are still in the limbo.
“For seven months, Senator Schumer and his Democratic obstructions group launched the kitchen sink to President Trump’s candidates,” Whip Barrasso said on Thursday in the Senate of the Senate. “It is not advice and consent. It is an obstruction and a delay. “
Washington, DC-July 22: The leader of the majority of the American Senate, Senator John Thune (R-SD) (R), talks about Whip of the majority of the Senate, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) (L) listens during a press bass after lunch of the republican policy of the Senate of the Senate in Washington, in Washington. The Senate Gops organized a weekly policy lunch to discuss the republican agenda. (Photo of Alex Wong / Getty Images)
The Senate Republicans argue that the confirmation process has never been so dysfunctional, but some of their democratic counterparts seem to pretend ignorance – or seek to avoid the subject’s discussion.
“I am not the one who opposed it,” said Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, at the DCNF when asked why the Democrats of the Senate consented to any of the president’s candidates approved by unanimous consent or vocal vote. “So overview and how she compares herself in the past and all that – I don’t know.”
“I am not aware of obstruction”, The Colorado Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper said to the DCNF when he asked the state of the confirmation process.
Hickenlooper also refused to speculate why Trump did not confirm any candidate by unanimous consent or vocal vote at this stage of his presidency compared to Biden who had nearly 50 nominees approved by this path on August 1.
“I don’t know,” said the Colorado Democrat. “”It is above my remuneration note.
The DCNF asked a question similar to the democratic senator of Wisconsin Tammy Baldwin on the objections of Democrats to the approval of the president’s candidates by unanimous consent, but it refused a brief interview.
A spokesperson told the DCNF that the senator was occupied and to reach out by email. The Baldwin office did not respond to a request for comments.
Other Democrats in the Senate have been more direct as to their intention to thwart the president of the rapid endowment of his administration.
“I vote not on all republican candidates,” said Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ed Markey, at the DCNF. “I have done it since January. I vote no. “
Washington, DC-July 30: The leader of the Senate minority, Charles Schumer (D-NY), speaks during a press conference with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the member of the Sen, Gary Peters (D-M) (R) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), demanding the release of EpStein Dichiers at US Capitol on July 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo of Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Thune has sought to counter the procedural obstacles of democrats by taking fewer hidden and holding an amazing number of votes this year – more than any congress in the last three decades. However, the Democrats’ refusal to accelerate the confirmation process has always limited the number of confirmations achievable in a week of work.
If the Senate maintained the eleven confirmations obtained during the third week of July, the current file of candidates would probably not be completely zero before November at the earliest – and that would not explain the hundreds of other confirmed posts in the Senate which were waiting to be provided.
“If we stayed in session 24 hours a day, 24 hours a day, all the time, we would always be here in December, and we would still have a backwards of hundreds of people here,” said Missouri republican senator Josh Hawley on Thursday. “If they do not stop filibuster, we will vote on these under-secretary positions in 2026 [and] 2027. “
The roadblocks of the Democrats also forced Thune to organize more than 100 procedural votes despite each of the president’s choices in the end during a final appeal vote. These votes hamper the capacity of the high chamber to work effectively and to spend time considering the legislation, which should compete for a consideration on the ground, according to several Senators of the GOP which spoke to the DCNF on Thursday.
“The Senate cannot work if you try that 1,200 people go by two hours, it’s really a three -hour period for each candidate,” the Republican Senator of Oklahoma James Lankford told DCNF, arguing that the obstruction of the Democrats was not limited to appointments. “”Their goal is to block credits, block all invoices to be able to move, whether partisan or non -partisan. »»
“I think we were in session almost 40 days more than the room,” continued Lankford, in a reference to the relatively punitive calendar of the Senate by grinding by confirmation votes. “We can do this simple or hard way, but Trump will get his people.”
Andi Shae Napier and Caden Olson contributed to this report.
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