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Top Senate Republicans are vowing to stay in session until all of President Donald Trump\u2019s Cabinet nominees are confirmed \u2014 a pledge that could keep senators in Washington for weeks due to Democratic delay tactics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not intending to go on recess,\u201d said Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican. \u201cWe want to get the entire Cabinet confirmed before we talk at all about going into a recess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in a Tuesday night tweet<\/a> that \u201cSenate Republicans are ready to work as long as needed to confirm President Trump\u2019s nominees. Nights. Weekends. Recesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GOP\u2019s vow to grind through Trump\u2019s cabinet picks<\/a> in the face of Democratic slow-walking comes after the president floated the idea of using recess appointments as a fall-back option during a Tuesday meeting with Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson, reviving an idea that has caused some heartburn with some Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n

By keeping the Senate in session, GOP leaders would in effect block Trump from making recess appointments, which are temporary and expire at the end of each yearly congressional session.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to get them confirmed here on the floor of the United States Senate,\u201d Barrasso said when asked about the controversial procedural move.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Trump\u2019s final Cabinet nominee wasn\u2019t confirmed until late April. The Senate\u2019s first recess is currently scheduled for mid-March.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s revival of potential recess appointments comes as the Senate is currently slogging through three of his first nominees: John Ratcliffe to be CIA director, Pete Hegseth to be Defense secretary and Kristi Noem to be DHS secretary. Though Democrats can\u2019t sink any nominee on their own, they do have the ability to eat up days of floor time.<\/p>\n

Thune has been careful to not completely close the door on Trump\u2019s recess appointment push \u2014 calling it an option on the table \u2014 but he also hasn\u2019t embraced it. Trump’s push could return if Democrats blockade his lower-level and judicial nominees.<\/p>\n

Asked about recess appointments after Tuesday\u2019s meeting, Thune acknowledged that Trump has been interested in it, but he said that his goal is to get back to the \u201cObama standard,\u201d aka meeting the pace of confirmations under then-President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Obama, incidentally, was the last president to use recess appointments. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in 2014<\/a> that three of Obama\u2019s recess appointments were unconstitutional because the Senate had held no-business \u201cpro forma\u201d sessions to avoid triggering a recess. That effectively ended the practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top Senate Republicans are vowing to stay in session until all of President Donald Trump\u2019s Cabinet nominees are confirmed \u2014 a pledge that could keep senators in Washington for weeks due to Democratic delay tactics. \u201cWe\u2019re not intending to go on recess,\u201d said Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican. \u201cWe want to […]<\/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-5254","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\/5254","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=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}