Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) predicted Wednesday that “most if not all” of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees will receive at least 50 votes in the Senate. Breitbart News Daily.
Asked if he thought President Trump's defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, would get 50 votes, Johnson said, “Oh, yeah. I think most, if not all, Trump nominees will get it.” answered.
“The default position of Republican senators is that this is a persuasive election,” he said, explaining that the president, not senators, decides who goes into the Cabinet.
“Our role is to respect the election results and make sure that President Trump has the people in his administration that he wants to surround himself with,” the senator said. “He has ultimate responsibility.”
Host Mike Slater pointed out the show's analysis. washington post The report identified a number of senators who could vote “against” President Trump's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“What's interesting is that I did something like an unofficial whipping of Bobby Kennedy early on and spoke to 41 Republican colleagues and 15 Democrats. I think that was mostly my account. “The conversations were all pretty much the same. It started with, “There's a lot of things that I really like about what Bobby is trying to do,'' but they have concerns.'' and explained that Kennedy could “easily” alleviate those concerns.
“And I think he will, and I think he does, so we'll see how this goes. I know there's probably going to be extensive lobbying from all corners of the swamp. …Because I think bringing truth into the political process here threatens people's business models, but that's what we need,” he explained. He said the American people “absolutely support getting to the truth about the causes of chronic disease.”
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“Is there a problem with the 80-dose childhood vaccine, the schedule? What's the truth about that? We haven't even been able to ask that question,” he said, adding that Kennedy's first mission was “totally corrupt. The aim is to restore the integrity of science that has been
“So just as we're getting the federal government to pay for it, we're getting big farmers to pay for the research. If you pay for scientific research papers, you're going to get the results you want. Peer review is a joke. Yes, it's also corrupt. Scientific journals are corrupt. They are all corrupted by the money that funds them. So if we are to actually get back to real scientific research, we need to expose it. “There is,” the Wisconsin senator added.
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