Difficult = inconvenient, awkward, unfavorable, unfortunate, inappropriate*?
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that President-elect Trump’s controversial Cabinet picks face difficult paths to confirmation in the Senate, warning, “None of this is gonna be easy.”
Thune acknowledged during a Thursday evening interview with Fox News’s “Special Report with Bret Baier” that a few Republican senators are likely to oppose former-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Trump’s choice to head the Department of Justice, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
And Thune cautioned that it won’t be so easy to recess the Senate for more than 10 days to allow Trump to circumvent bipartisan opposition to his nominees by making recess appointments.
“It’s an option,” he said of closing down the Senate for 10 days or longer, the standard the Supreme Court set for making recess appointments.
But he warned that he may not be able to get enough votes to do that.
“You have to have all Republicans vote to recess, as well. So the same Republicans … that might have a problem voting for somebody under regular order probably also has a problem voting to put the Senate in the recess,” he said, adding that the GOP-controlled House would also have to enter into an extended recess.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is one GOP colleague who has said she doesn’t want the Senate to abdicate its constitutional duty to provide “advice and consent” on Trump’s nominees….
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Trump kucklehead picks will have a tough time before the Senate inquisitor’s of BOTH parties one would think….
Some just ain’t gonna make it?…..
Thune has been tight with Mitch McConnell for the last few years folks….
Breaks coming on against Trump ALREADY?
* Oxford Dictionary
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