Senators are set to work through the weekend in order to confirm or advance several of President Donald Trump’s nominees and overcome efforts by Democrats to delay using procedural hurdles.
Negotiations broke down Tuesday evening between Democrats and Republicans to hold a final vote on John Ratcliffe to be CIA director, prompting GOP leadership to tee up procedural steps to advance Ratcliffe, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) to be homeland security secretary, and Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary.
“I hope that no one is making any plans for the weekend or the evenings because we’re going to get these nominees confirmed,” Senate Republican Conference Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) said. “What this is really about is trying to drag out all of these nominations to play procedural
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