{"id":14210,"date":"2025-10-08T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-largest-bloc-yet-of-trump-nominees-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:22:11","slug":"senate-confirms-largest-bloc-yet-of-trump-nominees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-largest-bloc-yet-of-trump-nominees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms largest bloc yet of Trump nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans confirmed more than 100 nominees Tuesday evening, largely clearing the backlog of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s picks who have been awaiting a floor vote.  The party-line vote comes after Senate Republicans changed the rules last month to allow most executive branch nominees to be confirmed as a group&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/07\/congress\/more-noms-confirmed-00597290\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans confirmed more than 100 nominees Tuesday evening, largely clearing the backlog of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s picks who have been awaiting a floor vote. The party-line vote comes after Senate Republicans changed the rules last month to allow most executive branch nominees to be confirmed as a group&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}