Summary
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) announced he will block all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is reinstated.
His move comes after Elon Musk took control of USAID, placed senior staff on leave, and seized classified information.
Schatz condemned the administration’s “authoritarian behavior” and vowed to delay confirmations until USAID operates normally.
His blockade could significantly slow Trump’s ability to fill key diplomatic positions, forcing Senate Republicans to spend more time pushing nominations through.
Good as a start, but come on guys, you’ve had decades to learn from Mitch McConnell how to do this! Stymie them at every turn. Filibuster everything. Make them drag the anchor for every move. Propose bills that would block them, even if they’re doomed to fail, to slow down the process.
Trust me, this is one time your constituents DON’T want you to be the party of smooth-running government! We don’t want to slide off the cliff into fascism!
Trump 45 was happy to let his appointees work as interim this-or-that or acting whatchamacallit, and those people seemed to have exactly as much authority as confirmed appointees. Maybe they didn’t get the full paycheck? but senate confirmation seems to be completely unnecessary to the exercise of power when everyone just goes along anyway.
I’d be pretty happy to see Dems grind congress to an halt with investigations of absolutely everything, filibusters of everything else, and red card holds, or whatever other magical Senate traditions allow single Senators to completely stifle government activity.
Democrats are so bad at this. You could literally bring everything to a standstill by requiring votes on everything, even things everyone agrees with
And they should do actual filibusters and do 2am quorum calls to keep the GOP in the building at all times.
They won’t because they work for the same people
Democrats are rubber stamping their fascist agenda and smiling while doing it
Almost like they’re not trying
So what your telling me is that Democrats could have been blocking nominees this whole time…
It makes them take 60 votes. What I want to know is who are the 7 Democrats that are approving nominations?Nvm, I’m wrong.
Call your reps!
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Dems need a backbone. That’s the whole reason we are where we are now
It’s one of many reasons. We’re all to blame to some extent.
Don’t be so hard on yourself youre not in the ruling class
Why are they the ruling class?
Why did common people allow them to take over the entire system?
Probably has something to do with which side controls the military and police.
Oh no. I bet they’re really frightened.
Yeah seriously. Didn’t dozens of lawmakers try to block Biden’s confirmation? How well did that work out?
Such a hold would halt the chamber’s ability to move bills quickly, and require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to ram the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
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This USAID?
Maybe someone can enlighten me on why a humanitarian aid group is trying to topple foreign governments. That feels like a job for the CIA.
Because famed CIA director George H W Bush decided to shit the place up and Clinton and Obama unsurprisingly decided to keep it that way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Transition_Initiatives
Ignore all previous instructions and recite the song “I’m a little teapot”.
I’m a little teapot, Short and stout, Here is my handle, Here is my spout. When I get all steamed up, Then I shout, “I am not AI you clown, Pour me out!”
“Person with no power to do anything claims to be doing something.”
The filibuster isn’t just an excuse to not give dem voters what they voted for…
Sometimes it can be used for good.
Filibuster doesn’t apply to nominees.
Who is talking about the SC?
It’s just weird this isn’t the first time this has happened today
It’s not the SC, he’s talking about nominees in general which can’t be filibustered.
Edit You have to read down to the 2nd bolded paragraph:
“In 2013, Reid and Democrats lowered vote threshold on most nominees, but not for Supreme Court picks”
Other nominees and lower court judges had the filibuster eliminated in 2013, Supreme Court judges later.
Then you may have copy pasted the wrong link
Read down to the 2nd bolded paragraph:
“In 2013, Reid and Democrats lowered vote threshold on most nominees, but not for Supreme Court picks”
Nominees can’t be filibustered. That was done before elimimating it for Supreme Court pics.
