Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton gave Americans a much needed dose of encouragement on Monday when he said he believes that the GOP majority in Congress’s upper chamber will confirm every single one of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks when the incoming administration takes office next month.
Cotton’s words come with a lot of weight. The Arkansas senator just won reelection last month to serve as the Senate Republican Conference chairman, which is the third highest position in leadership. The rather bold announcement seems to indicate that the conference is prepared to leave the establishment and the controversy cooked up the left-wing propagandists in the media in the dust and get to work on installing Trump’s picks.
“I expect our Republican Senate is going to confirm all of President Trump’s nominees,” Cotton posted on his X account Monday morning.
Cotton acknowledged recent history showing that if a president wants his nominee to get confirmed and sticks by him – as Trump has done with Pete Hegseth, his nominee to lead the Pentagon – that nominee will receive the support of his party’s senators.
“Of the 72 cabinet secretary nominees since the Clinton transition, only 2 nominees have ever received NO votes from the president-elect’s party,” Cotton wrote in a follow-up post. “No one should be surprised that the Republican Senate will confirm President Trump’s nominees.”
Hegseth continued meeting Republicans senators Monday, with other nominees, including Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, beginning to make the rounds as well. Trump has an aggressive legislative agenda for the first 100 days of his administration. Congress will likely need to pass government funding legislation by mid-March and will consider one or perhaps even two reconciliation bills.
The establishment within the GOP is not going to go down without a fight, which we’ve witnessed most recently in their election of Sen. John Thune to be the Senate Majority Leader. However, each and every day that Trump will spend in office this second time around will be another nail in the coffin until the beast is finally defeated. It’s been a long, long time coming, but the day when the influence of the establishment is dead is approaching.
And that will go down in history as one of the most significant contributions of the president-elect’s time in the Oval Office. Establishment politicians are only public servants to get fat off taxpayer dollars while doing very little actually work to protect the rights of the American people. I think Trump’s victory in November has clearly demonstrated we’re all tired of being sold down river.
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