{"id":3125,"date":"2024-12-02T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-to-thune-fully-vet-all-trump-nominees\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:36:12","slug":"schumer-to-thune-fully-vet-all-trump-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-to-thune-fully-vet-all-trump-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer to Thune: Fully vet all Trump nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has a message for his forthcoming successor, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.): Democrats are ready to fully vet each of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominees \u2014 and Republicans should join them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate plays a vital role in ensuring the President appoints well-qualified public officials that will dutifully serve the American people and honor their oaths to the Constitution,\u201d Schumer said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_to_thune_re_confirmation_process_12124pdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a letter Monday morning<\/a>. \u201cRegardless of party, the Senate has upheld this sacred duty for generations and we should not and must not waver in our Constitutional duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schumer noted that review of selections typically includes \u201creviewing standard FBI background-investigation materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plea comes as Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/10\/trump-presses-next-republican-senate-leader-recess-appointments-00188640\" target=\"_blank\">called for the use of so-called recess appointments<\/a> to fill out his Cabinet if the Senate won\u2019t confirm his picks. Thune has called recessing for ten days \u2014 a requirement for recess appointments \u2014 \u201can option\u201d to help Trump get his selections installed, but noted he\u2019d need near-complete GOP cooperation to get that done.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans senators have frequently vowed to continue their responsibility in providing \u201cadvice and consent\u201d on Trump\u2019s nominees when asked about picks that have concerned some senators, such as former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p><video id=\"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/main.mp4\" title=\"Meet RFK Jr., Trump's pick to lead HHS\" data-description=\"lead image\" poster=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/1155968404\/385d47c2-8e92-48f5-9000-58a498c963f9\/5bb491af-aba5-4b86-95aa-7cfb74e98725\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\"><source src=\"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/main.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has a message for his forthcoming successor, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.): Democrats are ready to fully vet each of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominees \u2014 and Republicans should join them. \u201cThe Senate plays a vital role in ensuring the President appoints well-qualified public officials that will dutifully serve the American people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","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=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}