Senators bracing for confirmation battles over unorthodox Trump Cabinet picks
(CNN) Republicans avoided a confirmation firestorm when former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as attorney general, but lawmakers on Capitol Hill are already bracing for how theyll navigate the next slew of unorthodox Donald Trump picks and they have warned the president-elects choice to lead the Pentagon, who faces controversy over his past comments and history, that the confirmation process is a long and invasive process.
Some of Trumps Cabinet selections, including Pete Hegseth, Trumps pick for Secretary of Defense, and Tulsi Gabbard, his pick for director of national intelligence, could force Republicans to choose between their allegiance to Trump and their growing concerns that some of his nominees might not be up for the job or might not be possible to confirm in a narrowly controlled Senate.
Hegseth on Thursday huddled with a handful of Republican senators, many of them seen as close allies of Trump, for a series of meetings. Lawmakers who emerged included Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, who called it a great meeting, and Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, who called Hegseth very qualified to do the job.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/politics/hegseth-trump-confirmation-battles-tulsi-gabbard-rfk/index.html
jimfields33
(19,214 posts)The rest probably slide in. Dr. Oz wont make it if he needs confirmation. Im not sure if he does.
sop
(11,393 posts)These confirmation hearing will be interesting.
lees1975
(6,027 posts)He will get who he wants.
orangecrush
(22,035 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,678 posts)GMTA.
Geechie
(951 posts)meow2u3
(24,931 posts)Isn't "unorthodox" just an anodyne way of saying Trump's cabinet picks are off their rockers?
karin_sj
(1,097 posts)... they continue to "sane wash" him.