One Hundred Percent
We had heard about how much trouble President Trump would have in getting certain so-called “controversial” cabinet picks through the U.S. Senate.
As of today, he’s at one hundred percent, including all four of the nominees that insiders said at one time or another “didn’t have a chance.”
Sure, the selection of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense required a tie-breaking vote by the Vice President following three GOP defections. But he’s serving in office.
There would be no way a vax denier like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., could get confirmed as Health and Human Services head…but there he is, asking questions about what goes into our bodies—both food and pharmaceuticals.
Tulsi Gabbard was a foreign asset, Democrats claimed—after she left their party, of course. Now you can call her Director of National Intelligence.
Kash Patel was nothing but a sycophantic loyalist who would ignore the facts to lock up Trump enemies as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Not that that would have been new; after all, the building is named for J. Edgar Hoover. But that’s where he goes to work these days.
All four confirmed. All four serving.
And now that the Labor Secretary nominee appears to have changed her views on right-to-work laws, her nomination may no longer need Democrat help to get across the finish line.
Yes, it’s all taking longer than it should; but all the talk about which one—or how many—of these nominees would fail appears to have been nothing but hot air in the midst of a Washington winter.
