CONFIRMATION TROUBLE
Some of his picks might face difficulties getting confirmed by the Senate, even with Republicans holding a majority in January.
Donald Trump Jr suggested that was precisely the idea.
“A lot of them are going to face pushback” but ”they are going to be actual disrupters,” he said. “That’s what the American people want.”
He said there are “backup plans” if Senate confirmation is problematic in some cases, but “we’re obviously going with the strongest candidates first.”
Trump Jr. also looked back to eight years ago, when his businessman father was new to Washington and its ways. “A big part of that process is just something that we didn’t understand in 2016, where he came to Washington, DC, he had no experience,” he said.
Now, his son said, Trump knows what to expect.
Republican Senator Eric Schmitt said the president-elect has “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to deliver that change, to take on permanent Washington, return the power back to the people.”
“You have to have people you trust to go into these agencies and have a real reform agenda. And that’s why I think there’s real momentum, real momentum to get these nominations confirmed to actually deliver what President Trump promised on the campaign trail,” Schmitt told “Sunday Morning Futures.”
On the same show, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville said, “We don’t need any Democrats to help us. We have got the numbers.” But, he added, Trump needs “a team around him that’s going to help him. He can’t do it by himself.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, the former Republican presidential candidate tapped by Trump along with businessman Elon Musk to lead a new effort on government efficiency, also predicted pushback from traditional Washington to promised steep federal cuts that he said showed the needed to “in the early months, score quick wins through executive action.”
Source: CNA
