President Trump’s America-first agenda, backed by the tens of millions who elected him, can only move forward if senators actually do their jobs by voting on the president’s nominees to top government positions.
Shamefully, almost 100 non-judicial nominees that have already been approved by Senate committees still await a vote by the full Senate. Without these appointees in place, unelected bureaucrats can run things unchecked, undermining the president’s priorities.
These nearly 100 appointees are just a small subset of the more than 1,300 Trump appointees, including judicial picks, who must ultimately be confirmed to staff the administration and whose confirmations are being slow-rolled by Senate Democrats. It’s long past time to get them into office.
Senators have an ethical obligation to work full-time to serve the public. Americans expect their elected officials to do more than twiddle their thumbs while almost 100 nominees wait. There is no good reason a Republican-controlled Senate should not work tirelessly until every Trump nominee gets an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.
Democrats, unable to defeat Trump’s nominees as the minority party, refuse to vote, delaying about nearly 100 appointees. This slow-rolling also threatens judicial nominations vital to strengthening our courts, which could spell disaster if stalled.
Trump’s incredible judicial legacy is unmatched. In his first term, he appointed 54 federal appellate judges with outstanding, constitutionalist credentials — one shy of Obama’s 55 in twice the amount of time — and more than 200 total judges, including three Supreme Court justices, which is a record since Reagan.
By 2021, more than one-fourth of federal judges were Trump appointees. But now, with too many courts in full-blown political opposition to the Trump agenda, senators’ refusal to confirm his appointees risks further devastating delays to Trump’s program. This is not supposed to be the way democracy works.
The Senate’s pace of five confirmations per week is unacceptable when a full workweek could clear dozens, ensuring that judicial nominees aren’t stalled. Holding grueling sessions, including weekends, would likely force Democrats to stop holding up the confirmation process, allowing nominees to advance en masse.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) can end this standoff by simply requiring a five-day workweek, scrapping the two-and-a-half-day schedule (Monday evenings to noon on Thursdays) now in place. If Democrats refuse, Thune should simply mandate seven-day workweeks.
And the Senate must not play politics with our legal system. If a judge is qualified, he should quickly be confirmed. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s hearings — stalled by over 1,000 questions (more than every other Supreme Court justice combined), by Capitol Hill anarchy by leftist activists and by humiliating accusations of sexual assault — must not be repeated.
To maintain a judicial landscape that upholds the rule of law, and to ensure that political appointees oversee the bureaucracy, Thune must compel votes on Trump’s picks.
My social media posts on X exposing senators’ refusal to work have gone viral, to the chagrin of these lawmakers. The social media outrage proves that citizens are fed up.
In response to the outrage, my understanding is that Thune now plans to work this issue now that the budget reconciliation bill has been passed. I hope so, because, at the current pace, Trump’s full slate of required nominees would not get a floor vote until 2030, long after he is out of office.
Tom Fitton is the president of the government watchdog group Judicial Watch.
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