The Senate set a modern-day record for confirming a president’s Cabinet appointments on Tuesday when they voted to confirm former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., as secretary of labor.
The confirmation of Chavez-DeRemer means that all federal government Cabinet departments now have a Trump appointee leading them. The only Cabinet-level official yet to be confirmed by the Senate is Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., whose confirmation to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been delayed owing to the slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
If Stefanik is confirmed before May, then Trump will beat his 2017 record for Cabinet-level officials in his first term.
In a statement to The Daily Signal, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., highlighted what the latest confirmation means for the Senate.
“I have said from the very beginning…
