President Trump blasted Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and told him to “GO TO HELL” as a fight over confirming executive branch political nominees boiled over and dozens of potential appointees were left in limbo.
Trump had wanted the Senate to stay in session and clear up the backlog of presidential appointees, but a deal between Republicans and Democrats to push through the nominees fell apart.
Senators went home for their August recess without confirming a slate of Trump’s nominees — leaving the president fuming.
“Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is demanding over One Billion Dollars in order to approve a small number of our highly qualified nominees, who should right now be helping to run our Country,” the president fumed on Truth Social.
“This demand is egregious and unprecedented, and would be embarrassing to the Republican Party if it were accepted. It is political extortion, by any other name. Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL!”
Many Republicans had been hoping to get just over 130 nominees from the backlog confirmed before the August recess.
Many of these types of civilian nominees breeze through the Senate via voice vote or unanimous confirmation. But Democrats took advantage of Senate rules to significantly delay confirmation of those picks.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) groused that no other president in recent history has faced so much obstruction.
Thune negotiated with Schumer (D-NY) on a deal to bundle up Trump’s picks to allow voting for them in bulk. In one iteration of the deal, the Senate would have voted on a batch of the picks before breaking for recess, and then another chunk when the upper chamber reconvenes.
But it appears that Democrats wanted guarantees from Trump that he would unfreeze some of the funding his administration had cut off for foreign aid and the National Institute of Health.
“Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country. Have a great RECESS and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump added.
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Hey Chuckie, did you give your usual Sunday Kuved Zucher press conference on Tisha b'Av? Or did you hide your sour punim behind Friedlander's fat tuchess out of shame (if you actually possess any)?
VA Sen. Tim Kaine, former running mate of Hillary Clinton, big friend of Fried Lander Groop, just voted for both Bernie Sanders bills against arms for Israel.
https://www.dailymonroe.com/news/liska-rebbe-to-visit-kiryas-yoel-for-ach-pri-tevuah-yahrtzeit-tish
DIN, did you RSVP yet?
Chuck Shoimer Yishmuel was no doubt grilling some geshmakka fleish lichvoid Tisha b'Uv with his Les-B tochter & her "roommate". Busser b'Chulev limhadrin min hamehadrin!
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