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Summary:

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) is expanding his holds on President Trump’s nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills, Axios has learned.

Why it matters:

That brings the total number of Trump nominees Schatz has now ground to a halt to more than 300, intensifying his protest of what he calls the White House’s “lawlessness.”

  • The fresh holds include former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.), Trump’s pick to be Labor Department inspector general, and Scott Kupor, tapped to lead the Office of Personnel Management.
  • The new holds span nominees at more than a dozen Trump administration agencies and departments. Schatz has already placed holds on all State Department nominees.
  • Schatz also is blocking nine bipartisan bills that recently cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in protest of what he characterized as the committee’s lax oversight of the Trump administration.
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    311·
    19 days ago

    intensifying his protest of what he calls the White House’s “lawlessness.”

    He isn’t just calling it lawless, anyone with a brain can see these are lawless motherfuckers.

    Do better US journalism. Call a spade a fucking spade. Stop weaseling out of telling the truth. This isn’t nuance or objective, it’s treating lawlessness itself as an argument to be quibbled over.

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      82·
      19 days ago

      Op article reminds me of parsing propaganda.

      Yes, it mentions things I need or want to know, but it hides and misdirects.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      5·
      19 days ago

      They’re quibbling because they’re complicit. Their owners are capitalist fascism supporters and are directing them to manufacture consent for the regime to succeed.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    31·
    19 days ago

    But if he does that he Might Upset their DONORS and Chuck Schumer! We CANT Have that! That’s MUCH More Important then Helping in whatever way they can the American Citizens!