Trump will get key cupboard wins sooner than predecessors with swift Senate confirmations

The Senate GOP has been working in overdrive to verify key officers for President Donald Trump’s administration sooner than his predecessors.

Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., and Republicans within the higher chamber have efficiently accredited 18 of the 22 Cupboard positions. 

The newest was former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who was confirmed to guide Trump’s Small Enterprise Administration (SBA). 

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The Republican Senate has labored to push by means of Trump’s picks.  (Getty Photographs)

With the profitable affirmation of Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick final week, the seventeenth official put in place, Republicans and Trump formally outpaced former President Joe Biden, who had simply seven nominees confirmed on the similar level in 2021. 

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso’s workplace identified that former President Barack Obama had solely 16 Cupboard officers confirmed by February 18, 2009, throughout his first time period, that means that Trump outpaced him as nicely with Lutnick’s affirmation. 

His workplace famous that 17 Cupboard nominees weren’t confirmed for Obama in 2009 till he had been in workplace for 36 days, citing official congressional data. Biden didn’t see 17 Cupboard nominees confirmed for 56 days. 

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Obama and Biden didn’t verify their cupboards as rapidly in 2009 and 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

The GOP-led Senate confirmed Kash Patel as FBI director final week, giving Trump one other win, regardless that Patel isn’t a member of the president’s Cupboard.

“By the top of at this time, we could have confirmed 18 of President Trump’s nominees. These nominees are daring and well-qualified,” Barrasso stated on the Senate flooring earlier than Patel’s vote. 

“That’s extra nominees than President Obama had in 2009. It’s greater than President Biden had in 2021. Greater than twice as many,” he stated. 

“People voted for a daring, new course in Washington. Senate Republicans are delivering it,” he stated.

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Patel was confirmed in a party-line vote, with some Republican defectors.  (AP Picture/Ben Curtis)

Whereas they nonetheless have a handful of Cupboard nominees left to verify, the approval of Patel marked a vital accomplishment for the celebration, as they formally put in place every of the president’s most controversial picks. 

Trump nominated Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Director of Nationwide Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard and Patel, every of whom managed to lose the help of not less than one Republican. 

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Gabbard relied on assist from JD Vance and Tom Cotton to get key votes. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)

And whereas their confirmations have been at some factors uphill battles for the administration, every of them efficiently obtained previous the end line. 

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These nonetheless left to be confirmed to Trump’s Cupboard are Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Secretary, of Labor Linda McMahon for Secretary of Training, U.S. Commerce Consultant nominee Jamieson Greer and Elise Stefanik to be ambassador to the United Nations.