By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 16:45:47 | Updated at 2024-11-28 12:52:47
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‘All the options’ are on the table to get Trump’s Cabinet picks through confirmation, Sen. John Thune says
NY Post ^ | 11/15/2024 | Ashley Carnahan, Fox News
Posted on 11/15/2024 8:28:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune said “all the options” are on the table to get President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks through the confirmation process amid concern that some appointees won’t receive enough votes to be confirmed.
Trump in recent days announced his choices for key government positions, from Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence to Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary.
Thune (R-SD) told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on Thursday on “Special Report” that Senate Republicans are going to work with Trump to “see that he gets his team installed as quickly as possible so he can implement his agenda.”
“All these people have a process that they have to go through. All these nominees are — it’s a — you know, advice and consent. That’s the Senate’s constitutional role when it comes to confirmation of nominations to the executive branch of the government. And we take that role seriously,” he said. “But we also are not going to allow the Democrats to obstruct or block President Trump and the will of the American people.”
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KEYWORDS: cabinet; options; picks; table; thune; trumps
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I am going to give Thune the benefit of the doubt for now
To: ChicagoConservative27
Maybe but something tells me he is lying.
2 posted on 11/15/2024 8:31:51 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Politics is the ultimate “Art of the Deal”. Everyone is for sale, it’s just a matter of price...i.e. what they want in return.
3 posted on 11/15/2024 8:33:09 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Thune has a lot of penance to do, and he’s starting out right.
4 posted on 11/15/2024 8:37:24 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
To: ChicagoConservative27
We shall see if his words match his actions.
5 posted on 11/15/2024 8:39:16 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
To: ChicagoConservative27
He is playing games. NO TRUST. He and his lib buddy Cornyn plan to ruin Gaetz with Kevin McCarthy’s help through the baseless accusations in the so called report.
Thune has to be seen as accommodating and loyal, A conservative leader. Don’t you forget for a minute that he NEVER wanted Trump from 2015 on! He wanted Trump replaced with Mike Pence! Dan Scavino posted the tweet. Never forget. Not for one minute.
6 posted on 11/15/2024 8:39:37 AM PST by navymom1 (I voted for President Trump!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Let’s hope Trump has the leverage to bring the RINOs to heel for the next two years, but he’s going to need our help keeping the pressure on. Light’em up boys and keep those phones ringing.
7 posted on 11/15/2024 8:40:12 AM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
To: ChicagoConservative27; fwdude
>> I am going to give Thune the benefit of the doubt for now
>> Thune has a lot of penance to do, and he’s starting out right
Agree with both of your sensible comments.
8 posted on 11/15/2024 8:41:37 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: Sequoyah101
It sounds like an answer I would give my wife when she wants to go on vacation to somewhere I dont like :)
If I liked it, I would just say “Yes, we are going”
Which happens eventually anyway :)
This guy, I don’t know,
9 posted on 11/15/2024 8:43:04 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
If they have 50 votes to recess, they have 50 votes to confirm. I believe they will all be confirmed. It’s possible some withdraw during the process.
10 posted on 11/15/2024 8:44:35 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: ChicagoConservative27
“see that he gets his team installed as quickly as possible so he can implement his agenda.”
“All these people have a process that they have to go through. All these nominees are — it's a — you know, advice and consent
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those are contradictory statements as this guy has the power to declare recess YESTERDAY and all appointees would already be in place.
no, hes a forked tongue backstabbing snake imho.
11 posted on 11/15/2024 8:44:54 AM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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