Senate republicans have a change of rule to accelerate the confirmation of Trump candidates

The Senate Republicans launched the process of becoming nuclear on the Democrats of the Senate in their quest to confirm the candidates of President Donald Trump.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., threw the GOP framework on Monday to use “the nuclear option”, a decision which allows a change of rule in the Senate with a simple majority vote in order to install a new rule which allows candidates to vote in groups.

The Republicans advance with a plan initially designed by the Democrats during the Biden administration, due to frustrations at the time with the slow pace that the candidates moved to the upper room.

Trump’s candidates accumulate while the GOP weighs the change of rule once floated by the Democrats

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., laid the basics of the GOP of the Senate to use “the nuclear option” to confirm the growing backlog of President Donald Trump. (Maxine Wallace / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

However, this rhythm turned into a pure and simple analysis during Trump’s second term. No candidate at any level has received a vocal vote or has evolved by unanimous consent – two methods intended to accelerate the confirmation process of the position level positions in the bureaucracy.

Thune quoted the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., who, in 2022, mocked against the Republicans during a speech by the Senate to slow down some of the candidates of former president Joe Biden, and said: “Whatever the part of the White House, the two parties have long agreed that a president deserves to have his administration in place,”. “”

Thune accused that the blockade of the Democrats is “Trump’s disturbance syndrome on steroids” and argued that if the candidates were as bad historically as they claimed, they would not have voted some of them outside the committee on a bipartite basis.

“We have a crisis, and it is time to take measures to restore the precedent of the Senate and codify in the rules of the Senate which was once understood as a standard practice,” he said.

“This afternoon, I take the procedural measures necessary to modify the rules,” continued Thune. “It’s an idea with a democrat pedigree.”

Thune is expected to take the first step in the process on Monday evening and will deposit a resolution with dozens of candidates who have advanced the committee on a bipartite basis.

The plan, which is inspired by a bill pushed by meaning. Amy Klobuchar, d-minn., Angus King, I-Maine, and former senator Ben Cardin, D-MD., Would authorize the candidates to vote in groups, or “in block”.

Republican Top of the Senate ready to “ riding ” Democrats with the change of rule to confirm the Trump candidates

President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he left the White House in Washington on September 7, 2025. (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana)

The initial bill put a ceiling of 10 nominees per group in block and included the choices judge of district and American lawyer. Republicans are likely to go beyond the ceiling, but may not include judicial candidates.

Instead, the emphasis is put on nominees at the level of the capital letter which make their way through their respective committees with bipartite support.

“What I just say is that we come back to the way the Senate worked,” the Whip of the majority of the Senate John Barrasso said R-Wyo., Told Fox News Digital. “When the vast majority of candidates, after being examined in a committee, their hearings were voted and sent to the ground. Then, you know, Bush, Clinton – 99% of them by unanimous consent or by vocal vote, and President Trump had no zero.”

Thune move comes after he and Schumer could not conclude an agreement on the move of candidates last month before the legislators left Washington for recreation.

The two parties have turned to the nuclear option a handful of times since 2010. In 2013, the majority leader of Senate, Harry Reid, D-NEV., Used the nuclear option to allow all executive branch candidates to be confirmed by the simple majority.

The GOP of the Senate is ready to become nuclear after the “political extortion” of Schumer of candidates

Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Is addressed to journalists during weekly lunches in Capitol Hill on June 24, 2025 in Washington. (Katopodis Tasos)

Four years later, the head of the majority of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, r-ky., Went nuclear to allow the candidates of the Supreme Court to be confirmed by a simple majority. And in 2019, McConnell reduced the debate time to two hours for civil candidates.

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The Republicans have expressed hope that the use of a proposal for democrats would influence some to support change and argued that this decision is intended to further rationalize the process and prevent future blocks by one or other parties.

“I really look at that as if they were forced to do something,” said Senator Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Told Fox News Digital. “There is nothing nuclear on this subject, in my humble opinion. And again, it is their bill, and we will see. It’s great to watch them squirming when they try to understand what to do with it.”