Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) offered tacit praise for Kash Patel‘s nomination as FBI director, though he stopped short of saying he would support him.
In an interview with NBC News’s Meet the Press, Thune was pressed on some senators’ concerns about certain Cabinet nominations, particularly Patel. Thune said he had met Patel and had productive discussions, but he wouldn’t commit to endorsing him.
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“Well, that’s a process … what I’ve promised them is a fair process,” he responded when asked if he would commit to approving all of Trump’s nominees. “And so these nominees are gonna go through a committee where they get a lot … they’re gonna have to answer
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