{"id":4591,"date":"2025-01-07T23:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-games-out-which-trump-nominees-he-can-confirm-on-day-one\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:03:52","slug":"thune-games-out-which-trump-nominees-he-can-confirm-on-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-games-out-which-trump-nominees-he-can-confirm-on-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune games out which Trump nominees he can confirm on Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Republicans are strategizing how to land a top party priority in the next two weeks: Getting some of incoming President Donald Trump\u2019s nominees confirmed on Day One.<\/p>\n

News:<\/b> Senate Majority Leader John Thune told us in a brief interview on Tuesday that Republicans have started feeling out who Democrats will help confirm on Jan. 20, immediately after Trump is sworn in. Remember that quick confirmation in the Senate will require support from all 100 senators. Senate GOP Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) called Day One confirmations a current \u201ctop priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat process is beginning,\u201d Thune said, asked about efforts to check with Senate Democrats on confirmations they can clear on Jan. 20. He added that \u201cas you might expect, the noms for the national security space are awfully important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s potentially on the list:<\/b> Sen. Marco Rubio\u2019s (R-Fla.) nomination for Secretary of State seems primed for quick confirmation \u2014 he\u2019s already amassed some Democratic support. Rubio is expected to get a hearing<\/a>in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week on Jan. 15. Barrasso said Rubio is \u201cabsolutely\u201d on the docket for nominees who could be ready for confirmation on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Trump\u2019s forthcoming nominee to be ambassador to the UN, is also viewed as a potential Day One confirmation. Stefanik is expected to get a hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 16.<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans are under public pressure from the base to quickly confirm Trump\u2019s picks, particularly national security nominees in the wake of the attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas. Other national security picks will likely take at least a bit more time, though Republicans are optimistic they can confirm some the same week as Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told us that his Judiciary Committee nominees, including those for attorney general, deputy attorney general and FBI director, could still be confirmed that week, but \u201ctowards the tail end of the week, that’d be the earliest.\u201d He later added that he\u2019s still waiting on the required background check and ethics paperwork for Bondi, and he wasn\u2019t sure how long it would be delayed.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is still meeting with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, including on Tuesday with vice chair Mark Warner. Gabbard is expected to get a hearing before inauguration day, according to a spokesperson for the committee.<\/p>\n

Chair Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) \u201cintends to hold these hearings before Inauguration Day. The Intelligence Committee, the nominees, and the transition are diligently working toward that goal,\u201d the spokesman added.<\/p>\n

Getting confirmation hearings on the schedule as quickly as possible is a goal that extends across the Senate GOP conference, priming a busy news cycle on Trump\u2019s nominees next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re going to do over a dozen hearings next week,\u201d Barrasso said, in the hopes to \u201cget as many lined up to go on Day One as we possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hailey Fuchs contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Republicans are strategizing how to land a top party priority in the next two weeks: Getting some of incoming President Donald Trump\u2019s nominees confirmed on Day One. News: Senate Majority Leader John Thune told us in a brief interview on Tuesday that Republicans have started feeling out who Democrats will help confirm on Jan. […]<\/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-4591","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\/4591","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=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}