On Thursday, the Senate confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees without delay.
In early September, The Gateway Pundit reported that Senate Majority Chief John Thune signaled doubtlessly utilizing the ‘nuclear possibility’ to interrupt Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer’s block on President Trump’s judicial nominees.
Thursday’s vote got here following Senate Republicans’ vote to chop the affirmation threshold from 60 to a easy majority to expedite the affirmation of non-cabinet and non-judicial nominees as a bunch and permit Senate Republicans to maneuver a number of nominees with a easy majority vote.
The GOP effort to make use of the ‘nuclear possibility’ was unanimous and joined by even RINOs Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
Earlier than the vote, Thune famous, “Republicans have mounted a damaged course of.”
The Senate voted 51-47 to substantiate the 4 dozen nominees. Thune mentioned that these confirmed on Thursday had all acquired bipartisan votes in committee, together with deputy secretaries for the Departments of Protection, Inside, Vitality and others.
Among the many confirmed are Jonathan Morrison, the brand new administrator of the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration, and Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece. Guilfoyle is a former California prosecutor and tv information character who led the fundraising for Trump’s 2020 marketing campaign and was as soon as engaged to Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
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“There will likely be extra to return,” Thune mentioned Thursday. “And we’ll make sure that President Trump’s administration is crammed at a tempo that appears extra like these of his predecessors.”
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BREAKING: The U.S. Senate simply CONFIRMED a whopping 48 President Trump nominees ALL AT ONCE, 51-47.
Chief Thune has invoked the NUCLEAR possibility.
KEEP PUSHING! They have to ALL be confirmed. pic.twitter.com/mZMvIHt0yZ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 18, 2025
