MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday known as on Senate Democrats “to make it as hard as possible” for Donald Trump to nominate his Cupboard with out Senate affirmation, generally known as recess appointments.
“Trump is the one who made it bizarre by making this demand that the Senate not affirm any of his appointees,” Maddow stated of Trump and the GOP’s plans to make use of recess appointments to sneak via probably harmful authorities appointments.
“Democrats should take him at his word and do the hearings now,” she added, warning that skipping the necessary background checks and affirmation hearings for Trump’s Cupboard nominees, akin to Fox Information dirtbag Pete Hegseth and Florida dirtbag Matt Gaetz, is solely the first step in an authoritarian motion away from democracy.
“Proper now, for these subsequent few weeks earlier than he is in energy, it is truly in Democrats’ energy,” Maddow reminds the viewers. “It is in Democrats’ hands in the Senate to show what the Congress can do, to show what it’s for, to do the job, and to make it as hard as possible for them to get away with the worst things they’re trying to do, even before they take over.”
As Maddow factors out, whatever the hype and rhetoric, Donald Trump and the Republicans didn’t win a blanket mandate this election. People, by and enormous, nonetheless need a democracy.
