President Donald Trump has what he wants.
Specifically, the person he wants to serve in his administration.
Former R-Fla MP Matt Gaetz was nominated for the Attorney General last November?
That was a lifetime ago. It was pushed out. Retracted. Unjust. Whatever you want to call it.
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The Senate has already confirmed at least one candidate that political experts deemed potentially unacceptable a few weeks ago.
Hegseth went skating to confirm with three GOP Nei. However, Vice President JD Vance to tore his tie. It was the second time in US history that the Senate confirmed its Cabinet Secretary in a tiebreaker vote by the Vice President.
And by the end of the week, the Senate will likely see two other controversial candidates who at some point are likely to be stretches. The Senate will defeat the filibuster on Tarshi Gabbard's nomination on Monday night to serve as director of national intelligence. Her confirmation slip is likely to arrive on Wednesday. The Senate will then likely crush the filibuster on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and serve as health and welfare secretary. The Senate could check Kennedy late on Thursday.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's choice to become Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 for a confirmation hearing at the Capitol in Washington. I will. (J. Scott Apple White)
In November, it was not possible that Trump could become muscle through certain candidates. But this is a confirmation juggernaut. Yes, the challenge is R-ore, a former MP for Lori Chavez Deremar. I'm waiting for it. Some Republicans believe Chavez Deremar is too Proraball. And the Department of Education may not be long enough for the Senate to confirm Secretary of Education candidate Linda McMahon. But so far, Republicans have stuck together.
Many Senate Republicans are willing to overthrow the president. They believe that the GOP owes him a majority in the House and Senate. So they're willing to postpone it to Trump. Additionally, some Republicans are worried that the president will strike them with the main challenges against them, either in truth or in engineering. Or perhaps just put pressure on them.
The group, which worked with the president, went after Sen. Joni Ernst of R-Iowa after his first meeting with Hegses late last year. Ernst serves the army and is a survivor of sexual assault. In an interview with Fox, Ernst suggested that she was not with Heggs yet, hoping for a “full review.” However, a few weeks later, Ernst came and gave Hegses the green light following the second meeting.
Pete Hegses is surrounded by his wife Jennifer Rauchett and seven children, sworn in as Vice President J.D. Vance of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House in Washington, DC on January 25th. 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)
Senator Todd Young, R-Ind. dodged a reporter's question in the hallway for several days about his attitude towards Gabbard.
“We're not asking questions!” As the senator tried to avoid the Capitol Hill Press Legion in the Darksen Senate office building, the aides began to feel distrust.
The same thing happened the next day.
“I'm sorry, but I haven't asked a question today. Sorry, I haven't asked a question today. Thank you. Thank you.”
Young didn't tilt his hand to Gabbard until the Intelligence Election Committee prepared to vote for the nomination and send it to the floor. Young released a letter from Gabbard, whose candidate apparently eased the senator's concerns.
“There was a specific language I wanted to hug her,” Young said.
In particular, he wanted to tell Gabbard that she would not ask for pardon for Spy Edward Snowden.
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On the left is the candidate for National Security Director Tarshi Gabbard and the candidate for Edward Snowden, portrayed in Moscow and Russia. (AP/Getty)
Gabbard once claimed that he had a pardon for Snowden and fled to Moscow, despite being accused of perhaps the biggest robber of American intelligence in history.
The committee then voted 9-8, sending Gabbard's nomination to the floor, receiving a positive recommendation for confirmation.
What made the difference for Young?
He spoke to President Trump. He spoke to Vance. He even spoke to Elon Musk.
“Did you mean there was accusation if you voted differently?” I really asked you.
“It's never implied,” Young said. “I think what Americans don't understand is that this process takes time from time to time.”
He argued that gaining security followed the process of “our founder father wanted people like him.”
The path to positive confirmation for RFK Jr. is not much different.
R-La. , Sen. Bill Cassidy is an AA physician and chairs the Senate Health Committee. After Kennedy's hearing with the panel, Cassidy showed he wasn't ready to support the candidate yet, and wanted to talk to him over the weekend. Cassidy was confused by RFK Jr.'s attitude towards vaccines. However, Cassidy was in RFK Jr.'s camp when it was time for the Senate Finance Committee to vote for the nomination a few days later.
Trump's Health Secretary Candidate RFK JR clears Senate Finance Committee confirmation vote
Left: Sen. Bill Cassidy, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Right: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's candidate for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. (Left: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Right: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“Kennedy and the administration have promised that he and I will have an unprecedented, close and cooperative relationship if he is confirmed,” Cassidy said. “We meet and talk multiple times a month. This collaboration allows us to work well and therefore become more effective.”
Cassidy's support removed the nomination from the RFK Jr. committee and sent it to the floor. So, like Gabbard, he's in cruise control later this week looking for confirmation votes.
Why did it make a difference in saving these once edged nominations?
Several Senate Republicans refer to former colleague Vance.
Vance has worked quietly in the shadows, leaning on his relationship with the senators to convince skeptical Republicans to his comfort zone with controversial candidates. The Trump administration saw how quickly Matt Getz's nomination evaporated last fall. There was concern that a robust GOP pushback could put an entire slate of candidates at risk.
Did Vance deploy soft power with the Senators? Or did he dispel concerns through brute force? Judge for yourself.
Vice President JD Vance after votes were ratified during a joint Congressional session to ratify the 2024 presidential election at the U.S. Capitol held in Washington, DC on January 6, 2025. It will respond. (Get McNamee/Getty Images)
Consider what the Vice President said during an interview with Fox last month about the role of the senator.
“We don't have to agree with everything Bobby Kennedy has said so far. We don't have to agree with everything Tarsi Gabbard has said so far,” said Republican Sen. Vance. “You're going to ask, 'Do they have the qualifications and characters to do this job?” “The person who decided whether to be nominated in the first place was the man who was elected President Trump. ”
The Senate has confirmed 13 Trump candidates so far. Eleven has gained bipartisan support. Secretary of State Marco Rubio marshalled the votes of all 47 senators who conspired with the Democrats. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgham has secured 27 Democrats. Attorney General Pam Bondi was scored by one Democrat. It was Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn.
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Pennsylvania Lt. Colonel John Fetterman, then-U.S. Senate Democratic candidate, spoke on Saturday, September 24, 2022 by Rep. Dwight Evans in Philadelphia. (AP News)
However, Budget Directors Las Vert and Hegses were unable to beat the Democrats. This is probably the same case as Gabbard and Kennedy's upcoming confirmation slip. Not only does Democrats oppose these candidates, their base is a compelling, big pushback after the administration shuts down USAID and Doge was mined for cuts without Congressional assistance.
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D-Va. Some Democrats, like Sen. Tim Kane of the president, believe they deserve to have a cabinet of people they have chosen. But now, the Democrats are bent their muscles. So the Senate stayed all night long until Vault confirmed vote. Democrats will likely demand that the Senate burn all the time available in Gabbard and Kennedy.
But Trump has got what he wants when it comes to confirmation. Most Senate Republicans don't want to push back. And Democrats can run the clock to the Senate and oppose the candidate. But whether appropriate or not, there is now a confirmation juggernaut for the Senate president.
