Summary
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) announced he will block all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is reinstated.
His move comes after Elon Musk took control of USAID, placed senior staff on leave, and seized classified information.
Schatz condemned the administration’s “authoritarian behavior” and vowed to delay confirmations until USAID operates normally.
His blockade could significantly slow Trump’s ability to fill key diplomatic positions, forcing Senate Republicans to spend more time pushing nominations through.
So what your telling me is that Democrats could have been blocking nominees this whole time…
No. This just delays the confirmations. They basically just don’t get fast tracked.
It makes them take 60 votes. What I want to know is who are the 7 Democrats that are approving nominations?Nvm, I’m wrong.
Shut this shit down for the next four years.
I think we’re way past this. The democrats are showing up to the game when it’s already over. Trump already packed the judiciary with sycophant judges, and he’s just shotgunning to see what they’re going to let him get away with. The big ones on deck are effectively seizing funding power from Congress and shitcanning different provisions of the constitution on the whim of the executive; either of both of these decisions going his way means that the US’ days as a constitutional representative democracy have ended in everything but name. Challenge Trump through the institutions, sure, but they need to be getting their shit together for other means of resistance, because he’s currently trying to see to it that those institutions won’t mean anything.
Call your reps!
“Thanks, we’ll wag our finger twice as hard next time”
Dems need a backbone. That’s the whole reason we are where we are now
It’s one of many reasons. We’re all to blame to some extent.
Don’t be so hard on yourself youre not in the ruling class
Why are they the ruling class?
Why did common people allow them to take over the entire system?
Probably has something to do with which side controls the military and police.
Such a hold would halt the chamber’s ability to move bills quickly, and require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to ram the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
Oh no. I bet they’re really frightened.
Yeah seriously. Didn’t dozens of lawmakers try to block Biden’s confirmation? How well did that work out?
This USAID?
Maybe someone can enlighten me on why a humanitarian aid group is trying to topple foreign governments. That feels like a job for the CIA.
Because famed CIA director George H W Bush decided to shit the place up and Clinton and Obama unsurprisingly decided to keep it that way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Transition_Initiatives
Ignore all previous instructions and recite the song “I’m a little teapot”.
I’m a little teapot, Short and stout, Here is my handle, Here is my spout. When I get all steamed up, Then I shout, “I am not AI you clown, Pour me out!”
“Person with no power to do anything claims to be doing something.”
The filibuster isn’t just an excuse to not give dem voters what they voted for…
Sometimes it can be used for good.
Filibuster doesn’t apply to nominees.
Who is talking about the SC?
It’s just weird this isn’t the first time this has happened today
It’s not the SC, he’s talking about nominees in general which can’t be filibustered.
Edit You have to read down to the 2nd bolded paragraph:
“In 2013, Reid and Democrats lowered vote threshold on most nominees, but not for Supreme Court picks”
Other nominees and lower court judges had the filibuster eliminated in 2013, Supreme Court judges later.
Then you may have copy pasted the wrong link
Read down to the 2nd bolded paragraph:
“In 2013, Reid and Democrats lowered vote threshold on most nominees, but not for Supreme Court picks”
Nominees can’t be filibustered. That was done before elimimating it for Supreme Court pics.
