The GOP confirms a massive batch of Trump’s choice when the government closed

The Senate Republicans confirmed on Tuesday an impressive number of candidates offered by President Donald Trump, while government paralysis continues.

The legislators voted according to the party lines to confirm the batch of 107 candidates of Trump, a decision which reduced the number of candidates remaining waiting on the calendar of the two -digit Senate. This also occurred while the upper room was in the middle of a government closure, during which indoor votes were largely devoted to trying to reopen the government.

The list of confirmed candidates included many of the main allies of Trump and former candidates whom he had carefully selected to go to the previous elections.

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Among the most recognizable list were Herschel Walker, a former Republican candidate for the Senate and ex-star of the NFL, who was appointed Ambassador of the United States to the Bahamas, and Sergio Gor, one of Trump’s main advisers, whom he chose to be his United States ambassador to India.

Among the other confirmed positions are a wave of senior administration officials, several prosecutors and the renewal of the President of Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins, to a siege within the Commission until 2031.

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The vote also marked the second time that the Senate Republicans have deployed the new change of rule concerning confirmations since they became “nuclear” on the rules of the Senate last month.

The Republicans have chosen to modify the confirmation rules to allow a simple majority of voices to advance large sections of candidates in response to the head of the senatorial minority Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., and to the blocking by his caucus of the choices of Trump which lasted almost nine months after the start of his presidency.

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As a general rule, candidates at the subcabinet level, in particular those benefiting from bipartisan support outside the committees, are accelerated in the Senate either by unanimous consent, or by vocal vote, two procedural stages accelerated in the upper chamber. But the Democrats of the Senate refused to give in and the Republicans said that they had forced the hand to a change of rules which, according to them, would benefit the two parties in the future.

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The change of rule confirms an unlimited number of candidates in a single batch, but includes several procedural stages to be crossed before a final confirmation vote.

The Senate Republicans had already confirmed 48 of Trump choices last month. Among them were Kimberly Guilfoyle, whom Trump chose to become an ambassador of the United States in Greece, and Callista Gingrich, who was chosen to be an ambassador of the United States to Switzerland.