Here are the eight Trump Cabinet picks Democrats plan to target

[babylonsister]

Here are the eight Trump Cabinet picks Democrats plan to target


Democratic senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March — an unprecedented break with Senate tradition.

Such delays would upend Republican hopes of quickly holding hearings and confirming most of Trump’s top picks on Inauguration Day. But Democrats, hamstrung by their minority status, are determined to slow-walk Trump’s picks unless they start disclosing reams of personal financial data they’ve withheld so far, according to senior aides.

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) has told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that Democrats will home in especially on Rex Tillerson, Trump’s choice for secretary of state; Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), his pick for attorney general; Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), tapped to lead the Office of Management and Budget; and Betsy DeVos, selected to serve as education secretary.

There’s also Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and oversee changes to Obamacare, who is expected to be attacked by Democrats for his support for privatizing Medicare. Andrew Puzder, a restaurant executive set to serve as labor secretary, will face scrutiny for past comments on the minimum wage, among other policies. Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner set to serve as treasury secretary, and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, Trump’s pick to lead the EPA, will also be the focus of Democratic attacks, aides said.

“President-elect Trump is attempting to fill his rigged cabinet with nominees that would break key campaign promises and have made billions off the industries they’d be tasked with regulating,” Schumer said in a statement Sunday confirming his caucus’s plans. “Any attempt by Republicans to have a series of rushed, truncated hearings before Inauguration Day and before the Congress and public have adequate information on all of them is something Democrats will vehemently resist. If Republicans think they can quickly jam through a whole slate of nominees without a fair hearing process, they’re sorely mistaken.”

Absent from the Democratic hit list are retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, the pick for defense secretary; South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whom Trump has nominated to serve as ambassador to the United Nations; and John Kelly, a former Marine general and Trump’s selection to lead the Department of Homeland Security, signaling that all three should expect little trouble from Democrats.

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[tenorly]

1. Betsy DeVil - sister of Eric "Blackwater" Prince - should be at the top of the list.

As close to the Biblical Whore of Babylon as we may ever see.

[90-percent]

18. Eric "Blackwater" Prince

He should be locked up in solitary confinement reserved for the most warped religious war middle ages fanatic how can people even think like that on the planet!

-90% Jimmy

[90-percent]

19. That's not a family

It's an inbred Jonestown religious fanatical cult.

Can't they just believe in the end times instead of trying to make it happen in our lifetimes?

-90% Jimmy

[tenorly]

21. Well said.

GOP political families aren't political as much as they are crime families.

Happy New Year, 90%. Hope you had a great time.

[90-percent]

23. Thanks for the compliment

I try and try and try to reason ate here and most of my contributions are duds. Fuse lit but it don't explode. But, I'm just a progressive democratic soldier trying to add my voice to our fucked up totally corrupted kleptocracy.

As Frank Zappa has said, (my hero that I incessantly quote around here), "first, don't stop. Second, keep going." We're the majority and the bullies got all their power by billionaire funded legislative capture.

Anyway, just trying to articulate the obscene outrage I've nurtured since Bush v. Gore. An Invasion of the Body Snatchers and I'm Kevin McCarthy screaming from the internet rooftops.

Welcome to DU. Our pretty much dead democracy needs everybody's voice, not just the nasty mean greedy cruel quisling ignorant fearful minority.

-90% Jimmy

[tenorly]

24. And thank you for the warm welcome.

It's a good time to be on DU, I think. An intelligent chat room on the progressive side becomes all that much more important at times like these.

[stevenleser]

2. I agree with the list of nominees to be targeted and the list slated for approval. nt

[pangaia]

10. How could ANY of them be "slated for approval."

[stevenleser]

13. Because some are terrible and bats--t and others we merely have disagreements with.

Schumer correctly put folks in each category.

[pangaia]

14. You mean Nikki Haley isn't batshit. :)))))

[DAMANgoldberg]

17. She started that way then...

Charleston happened on her watch and it became personal. Now she is a "voice of reason" in an otherwise insane GOP.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. I don't like her (or any of them for that matter)

but she is one of the few whom can reasonably be considered (relatively) "qualified" for her nomination. For the record, I probably wouldn't have been too freaked out if Romney had been nominated for a post over all of the other people with much more dubious qualifications. It all sucks pretty bad though.

[pangaia]

27. Amazing how the bar has been lowered, is it not.

Before all shit was shit.
Now only diarrhea is shit.. A little dry poop doesn't matter.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. Very amazing.

Sad!

[wryter2000]

3. Good list

Those are the ones I'd most like to see defeated. Will be calling my Senators

[Stargleamer]

4. Only Eight??? - Resist, don't capitulate!

Fight against them all and everything else the asshole does!!

[doc03]

6. That's what I say fight everything just as the Republicans did, it worked for

them they have entire federal government now.

[Crash2Parties]

9. No kidding - drag those confirmations out until 2018!

Just keep saying, "oops, no - sorry that day doesn't work for me". It's the one way they can actually do so, if they round robin & there is nothing in the rules to stop them. Dems could play the "oh, you expected us to be polite and play by the unwritten rules?" game, too...if they have the spine.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I am heartened to see these eight targeted for defeat by the Democrats.

They shall not pass, if we Democrats have anything to say about it.

We have our work cut out for us.

[leanforward]

7. Kindly leave no stone unturned.

Members of the Democratic Senate, take your time. Remember, more voters for Hillary, than whatchamacallit.

A member of the loyal opposition.

[pangaia]

15. Somehow I doubt Demo Senactors read DU.

😅🎶🎵

[samir.g]

8. Why let mattis and haley of the hook?

[pangaia]

11. Why only eight???.wtf!!!

[OhioBlue]

12. This list includes those that concern me most.

I hope they fight like hell. I know there are many reasons to oppose all of them but Betsy DeVos bothers me the most. I hoped she is stopped and someone who actually supports public education is selected.

[pangaia]

16. Why tell mcasshole what the plan is?

[StevieM]

20. I would like to add Ben Carson to that list. (eom)

[Raine]

22. How about Secretary of the Interior, that's my concern and

they better be on top of that one!

[lindysalsagal]

25. Glad to hear De Vos is on the hit list: She's the education anti-christ

Let's hope they're serious: Education gets left out when the excrement approaches the air circulation device.