There’s petty…and then there’s party. The Democrats, as much as they may be in disarray of late, are nothing if not pros at lock-step voting, and they’ve shown that once again, blocking the confirmation vote of President Donald Trump’s nominee as Ambassador to the Vatican.
Trump announced he would nominate CatholicVote president Brian Burch for the role in late December. In early May, Burch cleared the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on a party-line vote, setting up a vote by the full Senate.
In the meantime, Pope Leo XIV was named as the successor to Pope Francis, and his installation is set for this weekend. So, Senate Republicans asked the Democrats to agree to a unanimous consent vote so that Burch could be affirmed ahead of the installation.
Nope.
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