Tom Cotton Says ALL Of Trump's Cabinet Nominees Will Be Confirmed By The Republican Senate

Posted • December 10, 2024: There has been a lot of furor -- mainly from the dead legacy media -- over a number of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees since he started naming them several weeks ago. The person who has been in the crosshairs the most has been Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but the media is also doing their level best to lob character assassination bombs at DNI pick Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General-in-waiting Pam Bondi, and many others. The person the media might hate the most is, of course, Elon Musk, but he and Vivek Ramaswamy do not need Senate confirmation to begin the work of DOGE, so it's more difficult for the left to sabotage their planned mission to reduce the size of the federal government. In the end, however, all of Trump's appointees are qualified for their positions and the bluster surrounding many of them may be a great deal of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Republicans will hold a small majority in the Senate come January, so as long as most of those Senators do not weaken, there isn't much the left can do to stop Trump's appointments. The good news is, according to Senator Tom Cotton, that is exactly what he expects to happen. Tom Cotton @TomCottonAR: “I expect our Republican Senate is going to confirm all of President Trump's nominees.” -- Almost all of Trump's picks have been applauded by the voters who elected him. There are very legitimate concerns on the right about two nominees, Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Secretary of Labor and Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General, but Cotton seemed confident that Senators will vote for both of them as well, assuming Republicans cannot convince Trump to name better individuals for those positions. (…)

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