The Thune of the Senate provides the “suitcase” to accelerate confirmations

It was a complete nuclear explosion.

Just like the Pacific test terrains near the Marshall islands and French Polynesia.

But this political explosion has torn the Senate Chamber.

In November 2013, the deceased head of the majority of the Senate, Harry Reid, D-NEV. Exploded the first “nuclear option” of the Senate. He slowed down the Flibustier to confirm the candidates of executive agencies – with the exception of the Supreme Court. Rather than 60 votes to break an assessment object, these candidates would only need a simple majority.

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The former head of the majority of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Triggered the second “nuclear option” in 2017. The Kentucky republican provided for a democratic filibusier while the Senate tried to confirm the judge of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch. Thus, McConnell ruled out at the bar of the obstruction for the appointments before the High Court.

McConnell also lowered this 60 -year bar to 51.

These two cases were so dramatic that they presented clouds of parliamentary mushrooms that broke out on the Capitol. The Senate finally fell into the nuclear winter after the two cases, paralyzed from the fallout.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., appears in front of the press after a political lunch at the Capitol Building on September 9, 2025, in Washington, DC (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

Now, the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune, RS.D., is about to fill the parliamentary equivalent of a “nuclear suitcase” on Thursday.

Thune’s gambit is not something to ignore. He will not carry the same immediate parliamentary weight of the maneuvers executed by Reid and McConnell. However, this is another crack in the custom of the Senate of obstruction. The legislative filibuster still exists. Senators can always block bills if they can prevent the body from tinkering 60 years to break an obstacle.

Thune will follow the game book established by Reid and McConnell to modify the precedent of the Senate (Note: This is not a change of rules. The Senate requires 67 votes to break an obstacle on a change of rules.) To accelerate the confirmation of lower level candidates in groups. This plan will not include judges or secretaries of the cabinet.

Thune put its Gambit in motion on Monday by introducing a resolution to accelerate a list of around 40 nominated. By rule, the Senate will take a procedural vote to break an obstacle on its resolution to confirm the set of candidates on Thursday. The resolution itself, which is specific to this type of batch of candidates, needs 60 years. The Senate will not be 60 years old.

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But this is exactly the scenario Thune needs to become nuclear.

The kingdom’s coin in the Senate is an unlimited debate. But one of the rare opportunities that senators cannot debate something is when a question fails and a senator requires a dream. Thus, a failed vote to break the Flibustier supports the Senate in the exact parliamentary cul-de-sac that Thune wants.

At the end of the vote by appeal, Thune will probably pass her voting from yes to no on the breakdown of the obstruction. The Senate allows members to demand a Mulligan if they are on the dominant side of the issue. In this case, Thune is suddenly with the “no”, even if he initially voted yes to break the filibusier. But remember, Thune only temporarily changes her vote in order to advance her cause. He can lose the battle. But he can finally win the war.

By modifying its position, Thune can then order a re-vote on the call for roller which failed. And since the Senate is in this unique posture not to authorize any debate, the Democrats are paralyzed. They can do nothing to prevent Thune from what he then provides.

The head of the majority of the Senate, Harry Reid, D-NEV., Presence during a press conference on February 24, 2010 in Washington, DC (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images)

This is similar to what Reid did in 2013, followed by McConnell in 2017, on the first two nuclear options.

Thune will then make a command point on the ground.

Thune will affirm that on resolutions like that, he has drafted a block of candidates of lower level (for example – those now before the Senate) does not need 60 votes to break an obstacle. The president – potentially president of the Senate Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley, R -Iowa, or even the vice -president Vance, who is the president of the Senate – will probably govern that Thune is wrong. The rules of the Senate and the previous ones require 60 votes to break an obstacle on this type of resolution.

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But Thune does not stop there.

The head of the majority will then request a vote to cancel how the president has reigned. He will say that a simple majority is necessary to break an obstacle for this type of resolution – even if this has never been the case before.

The Senate will vote. And if 51 senators vote in favor of the decision against the president, the Senate will have established a new precedent. It will reduce the threshold of 60 to 51 to this type of resolution to quickly advance a batch of candidates at the same time.

Once the Senate is doing, Thune will have to open another procedural vote under the new previous ones to break an obstacle. If Thune “drops off again the Clot” Thursday, the Senate can vote on Monday to break an obstacle – requiring only 51 years – Monday, September 15. If the Senate votes to break the filibuste on the resolution under the precedents altered, the Senate could vote to confirm the 48 candidates in question on Wednesday, September 17.

The head of the Senate minority, Mitch McConnell, R-ky., Went to the Senate on January 18, 2022 in Washington, DC (Eric Lee / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Here is an example of some of the candidates in the queue for confirmation:

Former representative Brandon Williams, RN.Y., is under the under-secretary to nuclear security. President Trump typed Leslie Beyer to be an interior assistant secretary. Richard Anderson will become a deputy secretary of the Air Force. Jovan Jovanovic Direct the Export-Importation Bank. Callista Gingrich, wife of the former president of the Newt Gingrich Chamber, R-GA., Is the choice of the president as an ambassador in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Thune says that Democrats are obstinate, not allowing the Senate to confirm a batch of candidates in a single stroke. He accuses the democrats of obstruction, saying that the minority tries to undermine the president.

“It is simply the longest and most stretched in the angry world against the loss of an election,” said Thune.

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But the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., had a message for the Republicans: Caveat Empor. Especially when the Democrats finally come back to the majority and have a democratic president.

“I say to my republican colleagues, think carefully before doing this stage,” warned Schumer. “If you become nuclear, it will be a decision that you will regret.”

You could say that the Democrats helped open this door when Reid launched the nuclear option n ° 1 in 2013. Democrats were frustrated in the face of candidates of the President of the Republicans, President Obama.

The same thing when McConnell made the favor at the Supreme Court with the nuclear option n ° 2 in 2017.

And if you are a real Student in history, consider that the late head of the majority of the Senate, Robert Byrd, DW.V., really put the table for Thune maneuvers via three previous gambits in 1980.

Senator Robert Byrd, DW.VA., in his Capitol Office on January 20, 1979 in Washington, DC (Upi / Bettmann Archive / Getty Images)

So the tit-tray continues.

During the impasse of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, geopolitical observers said that the world had changed on mutually assured destruction. The launch of a nuclear attack on a nation would lead to the annihilation of the two countries. A country can strike first. But the main attacker would not survive due to guaranteed reprisals, in kind.

There is not such a doctrine of destruction mutually assured in this parliamentary war game. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans pulled a complete nuclear volley on the other side. Each strike was “strategic”, led by a limited political target. Thus, there is no mutually assured destruction.

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But that also means that there is no incitement for the Senate Destant.

And that is why these strikes and parliamentary counterattacks probably do not end soon.