Democrats plan to target eight Trump Cabinet nominees

[TexasTowelie]

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 hone in especially on Rex Tillerson, Trump's choice for secretary of state; Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Trump's choice for attorney general; Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., tapped to lead the Office of Management and Budget; and Betsy DeVos, set 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 set 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.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-democrats-trump-cabinet-nominees-20170101-story.html

[Abouttime]

1. Good

Resist them all the way. tRump should not get any of these picks confirmed by the Senate.
tRump lost the popular vote by 3 million and won only with Russian help in stealing 4 key states, PA, MI, WI, and FL by less than 100,000 votes. These facts alone make tRump an illegitimate President elect, there needs to be some kind of consensus reached before he is allowed to govern. The Democrats in the Senate must stand up and represent the will of the majority who voted against tRump.

[Lee-Lee]

2. Do they have much leverage now that the Fillibuster is gone for nominees?

I fear that move is going to haunt us in coming years.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I think that they are hoping that they can split off a few Republicans from approving

the nominations. It will depend on whether any of the Republicans have a conscious--the best bets are Murkowski and maybe Collins.

[libtodeath]

6. Will never happen,they have no decency.

[Abouttime]

7. Why doesn't Reid change the rule?

Why should they get the benefit of the rules we had to change because of their rascist obstruction of Obama?
I say change the rules back to where they were and let the repukes catch hell for bending them to benefit tRump.

[Lee-Lee]

8. I don't know, can he at this point?

Does he have the votes and can it be procedurally done at this point?

The optics would look bad, but with 2 years until the next election Trump will have mangled things so bad by then nobody will remember.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. "Such delays would upend Republican hopes...."

Gee, that's just awful.

[TexasTowelie]

5. That really makes me depressed.

[kentuck]

9. That's about all they can do...

But, they should demand full transparency from all these nominees.
Good move.