The Senate confirms that Trump Pick Wright to lead the nuclear regulatory committee

The Senate confirmed its first candidate of the week before what should be a crowded calendar to cover as many choices by President Donald Trump as possible.

David A. Wright, Trump’s choice to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (CNRC) for a five -year term, was confirmed in the upper chamber out of a 50 at 39 votes on Monday. It is not the first time that Wright as president of the Commission, having first played the role from 2020.

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Trump had already hit Wright in his first mandate, and again selected him to direct the CNRC earlier this year. Its new term should end in 2030.

The CNRC is an independent regulatory agency responsible for regulating commercial nuclear power plants, reactor licenses and renewal and other elements linked to the protection of public health and security in nuclear energy. Wright’s confirmation occurs at Trump’s announcement that the American Union and the European Union concluded a trade agreement that would see the block buy $ 750 billion in American energy over the next three years.

While the Commission is independent of the other weapons of the government, the Democrats of the Senate fell in recent attempts to make the regulatory body, in their opinion, more partisan.

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Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive decree that required the agency to plan to make its security standards less strict, shortening deadlines for environmental examinations and a quadrupling of the country’s nuclear capacity by 2050: all part of the president’s quest to ensure the domination of American energy.

The president of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Shelley Moore Capito, RW.V. argued that in the last seven years that Wright has been part of the Commission, first as a commissioner starting in 2018, then as president, he would respond to the wishes of the president.

“The realization of this will require experienced and highly qualified commissioners who are authorized to direct the agency through a period of high expectations,” she said in a statement. “Well, David Wright meets this brand.”

Then, Trump dismissed a democratic member of the Commission last month, and a member of staff from the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government (DOGE) would have been detailed from the Ministry of Energy at the Regulatory Agency.

It prompted the senator Sheldon WhitehouseThe best democrat of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, to warn a “hostile takeover” of the Commission by the Department of Energy.

This decision injured what started as a bipartite support for the appointment of Wright – Whitehouse initially supported it but changed its position.

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The logo of the American nuclear regulatory committee is next to the American flag at a meeting at the CNRCville headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, Monday March 21, 2011. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I was hoping to see President Wright happening on occasion, but the circumstances at the moment at the CNRC are continuing to deteriorate,” he said in a statement. “I cannot currently support his renomination.”

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However, Wright’s confirmation is a victory for the Senate Republicans and the White House after Trump called the Senate’s GOP to wander his candidates through blockages set up by the Senate Democrats.

There are now more than 140 “civil” nominations pending for positions through the glove of federal agencies, ambassadors and judgments. The Senate has moved to a stocky clip in the past six months to confirm the candidates – they have succeeded nearly 100 so far – the president has called on the Senate Republicans to consider canceling the next August break to do more.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., warned that if his colleagues through the aisle continued to walk slowly in the upper room for remaining “non -controversial” candidates, or prepare to stay in Washington.

“Or they can curb their anti-Trump reflexive feeling and allow some of its basic candidates to continue by unanimous consent or vocal vote-just as the Republicans did when the roles were reversed,” he said. “And I would remind my colleagues the dangerous and ugly previous and ugly they put here. But the choice is theirs. But whether it is the slow or quick means, we have President Trump’s candidates confirm.”