Senate republicans loved the nuclear option after Trump’s candidate’s failure

The Senate Republicans are considering the opportunity to nuclear after negotiations with the Democrats of the Senate for RAM through the candidates of President Donald Trump have collapsed during the weekend.

The way to confirm dozens of Trump’s exceptional candidates was destroyed when the president accused the minority chief of the Senate Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., of “political extortion” and accused the requested price of the Democratic leader for candidates was too high.

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The Senate Republicans are considering the opportunity to nuclear after negotiations with the Democrats of the Senate for RAM through the candidates of President Donald Trump have collapsed during the weekend. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images; Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Now, the legislators have left Washington without agreement to group dozens of nominees who have succeeded in the committee with bipartite support, and a change in the way the Senate manages the confirmation process is on the horizon.

The whip of the majority in the Senate John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Abstained Schumer and Democrats of the Senate for their “unprecedented” blocks of the president’s candidates, and noted that each choice had been a filibusted with the exception of the Secretary of State Marco Rubiowho slipped into the Senate earlier this year.

“We have worked on the list, but there is still a great backlog due to the unprecedented filibusier by the democrats of each candidate,” said Barrasso. “And if they do not change their behavior, we will have to change the way things are done here, because a president must have his team in place.”

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Senator John Barrasso speaks to journalists during weekly lunches on Capitol Hill on June 24, 2025. (Katopodis / Getty Images Tasos)

In normal circumstances, the change of rules in the Senate would require 67 votes, which means that the Democrats of the Senate should be on board with a change. However, there is a path that legislators call the nuclear option, which allows changes in the rules to need a simple majority.

There is the political will among the Republicans to change the rules, but that would open the door to the Democrats of the Senate to do the same when they return to power.

“I think that this way will happen anyway, because of what Schumer did. He forced this, and it is ridiculous that he does this,” said the senator. Markwayne MullinR-on., Said. “And so, whatever, we are at this stage, and we will do it, you know what they say, each action requires (reaction) equal, and that’s what we are right now.”

Some of the options on the table include the shortening of the debate time for candidates, the stretch of procedural votes for certain lower level candidates, bringing together certain “in block” civil candidates – something that is already done for military candidates – and, at the committee level, deciding to reduce the number of nominees subject to the confirmation process.

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The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, stops with journalists at the American Capitol on July 1, 2025. (Getty Images / Andrwe Harnik)

Currently, more than 1,200 positions assume a confirmation of the Senate. The Senate Republicans have been able to confirm more than 130 of Trump’s choices so far, but had a higher goal of making at least 60 more before leaving the city until September.

And there are more than 140 nominated still pending on the Senate calendar.

“I think they desperately need change,” said the majority leader in the Senate John ThuneRS.D., told journalists. “I think the last six months have shown that this process, the appointments, is broken. And so I expect there to be good robust conversations on this subject.”

As for the time when legislators will try to run with a change of rules are always in the air. The Senate has disappeared from Washington until the beginning of September and will return to an imminent deadline to avoid a partial closure of the government.

Before leaving the city, the Senate has advanced a trio of expenditure bills – a first in the upper chamber since 2018 – but these same bills are unlikely to go to the House, since they spend higher levels than those Green -Bloved by the Gop of the Chamber.

Powder a change of rules without democrats could also have a price for government financing negotiations. Schumer said that a possible change in rules would be a “enormous error” for the Republicans to be made by themselves.

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“Because when they go there alone, they foiled the American people and for themselves,” he said.

When asked if there were changes in possible rules that he and the Democrats of the Senate could accept, Schumer said: “We should work together on the legislation to make things happen for the American people.”

“This is the way to follow, not to change the rules, because when they change the rules, they say:” Only we will decide what is good for the American people “, and each time they do, the American people lose,” said Schumer.

However, the Republicans were not satisfied with how negotiations were disappointing after days of back and forth.

“In fact, we wanted an agreement,” said Mullin. “And these people deserve to be put in position … They will say that we are trying to make a nuclear option. The fact is that they – Schumer – have become nuclear for a long time.”