The Senate is preparing to vote in the coming days on Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick, Agriculture pick Brooke Rollins, and Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Democrats continued their blockade of nominees Thursday following the confirmation of Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
But Republicans remained united through several procedural votes to overcome the minority’s efforts to protest contentious picks like Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard and the Trump administration’s steps to gut several agencies and pause appropriated money.
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“My goal was to make sure every one of President Trump’s nominees got confirmed,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told POLITICO.
