Democrat’s ARE holding things up on this one…..
They HAVE come together with Republicans to get some samaller spending bill’s done….
President Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) are making slow progress toward a deal to clear some of the Senate’s backlog of executive branch nominees to allow weary senators to leave Washington for the four-week August recess.
Walking off the darkened Senate floor at 10 pm Friday, Thune said negotiators “floated” proposals “back and forth all day” but added that the Democratic demands “are probably not going to be something at this point we can meet.”
“No deal yet,” he said.
The Senate is scheduled to reconvene at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday and will vote at 10 a.m. to limit debate on Andrew Puzder’s nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to the European Union.
Democrats are under heavy pressure to oppose Trump in any way they can, including stymying his nominees, and their anger soared again on Friday after the president fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report….
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Trump has called on the Senate to stay in session throughout August in order to approve his nominees, but the vast majority of senators are ready for a break.
The Senate has been in session for 12 of the past 14 weeks and had its July Fourth recess chopped in half because of marathon negotiations over Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, which passed after senators slogged through a long series of amendment votes that went overnight and into the next day.
While Senate leaders remain deadlocked over a nominations deal, they achieved a major bipartisan accomplishment Friday evening when they passed a package of appropriations bills to fund military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs and Agriculture, and the legislative branch.
The Senate voted 87 to 9 to pass the military construction, veterans affairs and agriculture appropriations “mini-bus” and 81 to 15 to attach the legislative branch appropriations bill to the package….