Democrats are threatening to slow down all of Donald Trump’s nominees to keep him from implementing his agenda. He could appoint nominees with recess appointments but has met a lot of resistance.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
We just won a Historic Landslide and Mandate from the American People, but Senate Democrats are organizing to improperly stall and delay the confirmation process of many of our Great Nominees. They will try all sorts of tricks starting very soon. Republicans must not allow them to do that. We have a Country to run and many big problems to solve, mostly created by Democrats. REPUBLICANS, BE SMART AND TOUGH!!!
Do we really think Republicans will cooperate?
Using the Federal Vacancies Reform Act
According to BBS News, Trump could temporarily place those loyal to him in high-ranking positions without Senate approval: a 25-year-old federal law that sets the rules for presidents to tap acting officials to fill vacant positions requiring Senate confirmation.
Enacted in 1998, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, or the Vacancies Act, limits the number of government employees who can temporarily fill the roughly 1,300 federal offices that require nomination by the president and approval by the Senate.
Some of Donald Trump’s most important picks, like Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert Kennedy, face opposition.
About 1300 critical appointments still require Senate approval, and if Trump defies them, they could dig their heels in.
“Congress has made the policy choice to have about 1,300 positions still require Senate consent,” said Thomas Berry, a legal scholar at the Cato Institute. “But what we have now is that any given time, half or more than half of those are filled not by Senate-confirmed people, not because Congress made that policy choice, but because the Vacancies Act can be pushed to the limit and maybe even beyond its limits, and it’s so easy to have acting officers or sub-delegates essentially act in exactly the same way they would if they were Senate confirmed for years at a time.”
Eventually, there will be Senate-confirmed officials in lower-level positions and those at the highest pay grade who have served in their agencies for more than 90 days. Those officials could be then tapped for acting positions, Berry said.
“The vacancies people should be more concerned about, the vacancies where Trump has a lot more flexibility, are the ones that occur in the middle of the term, not right on day one,” he said.
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He can withhold MONEY. It’s a tool.
Trump has two years to accomplish his agenda. Senate majority is razor thin with non-loyalists in the new Republican Party. He must run roughshod to push his agenda through at all costs and meanwhile ridicule, and politically destroy any R’s who stand in his way. Too much at risk. If his agenda fails this country falls to communism or worse – Globalists.
Here is what Americans need to do right now. We need to set up a GoFundMe account for the specific purpose of hiring private investigators to investigate the finances and scandals of every Republican who resists Trump’s nominees, find the dirt the Dems have on them (oh there will be plenty), and use the leverage to counter the stranglehold the Dems have. I don’t care how “religious” Johnson claims to be, he is incompetent and cowardly and/or compromised—bribed, blackmailed, or threatened. I am betting he is compromised.
I’d gladly contribute!!
He could also release the Epstein list, the Diddy list, the Beginning Net Worth and Current Net Worth listing of ALL of the current Traitors in Office, the Bail Out list from the sex slush fund, you know, the Stuff the FBI has…………………..
I like that idea of hiring the nominees into the highest positions within agencies that don’t require senate confirmation then firing everyone that does. That way the nominee can be the acting agency head and the Senate can go pound sand until they get with the program. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Trump could also veto any legislation favoring those Senators who oppose and sabotage the MAGA agenda. Trump could also appeal to the resister’s constituents directly via the media and mailers to put pressure on the elected officials.
top four levels at most all agencies are weasels that NEED to be fired