Leading Senate Republicans have been delivering fiery rebukes as their Democrat colleagues slowed down the process of confirming President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet nominees for his nascent second term in the White House.
After Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) objected to a so-called time agreement that would have allowed a final vote on John Ratcliffe‘s nomination to become CIA director on Tuesday, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) voiced his dismay in remarks on the Senate floor while stressing that the upper chamber would press ahead with Trump’s picks.
“We’ve now wasted a whole day where we could have been acting on that nomination,” Thune said, adding that the question before the Senate was “do we want a vote on these folks on Tuesday or vote on them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Because that’s what we’re going to do. This can be easy or this can be hard.”
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