The Senate confirmation battle intensifies while the bipartite agreement on candidates dies

Last -minute closed doors with closed doors between Senate The Republicans and Democrats did not prevent a “nuclear option” in the upper room after the frustrations on both sides killed an agreement to move forward with the candidates of President Donald Trump.

The legislators approached an agreement which would have allowed the candidates at the level of the submill to be voted in clusters, but none of the parties could reach a final agreement.

The Senate Republicans argued that a majority of their counterparts agreed with the new proposal, but that the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., was still on the way.

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The minority of the Senate Whip John Thune after lunch of the Senate policy in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2025. (Maxine Wallace / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“I think the majority of Democrats are on board,” said senator James Lankford, R-Okla., Told Fox News Digital. “And Schumer blocks him from his consent to come to the ground.”

The failed agreement was a modified version of a proposal revealed for the first time by the Democrats of the Senate in 2023 and would have enabled 15 candidates to be grouped in a block and to vote while requiring two hours of debate for the group.

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The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., firmly has his blockage of the Democrats and Democrats of the Senate of the candidates of President Donald Trump while the Senate Republicans head to a change in nuclear rules. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

But when Lankford presented the proposal on the field for examination, Senator Brian Shatz, D-Hawaii, blocked him.

Shatz argued that the Senate Republicans were trying to rush into the negotiation process before their planned Washington plan for the weekend.

“What they ask is unanimity, and we don’t have it,” he said. “And so, if you are interested in adopting this on a bipartite basis, the process to do it – it is available for you. But, once again, it is a question of lacking in time.”

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

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., retaliated: “How long is enough?”

“Give me a break,” he said. “Two years. Not long enough. And eight months? Eight months.”

With low prospects for a bipartite agreement to move the candidates through the blockade of the Democrats, the Senate Republicans should continue on the path of “the nuclear option”.

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This means that their initial proposal, which would allow an unlimited number of capital nominees to be voted in a block with 30 hours of nailed debate, should pass with a simple majority and effectively modify the confirmation process in the Senate.

“We are mainly close to doing this as adults,” said Shattz.