McConnell: Americans ‘Will Not Tolerate’ Dems Blocking SCOTUS Nom

Schumer is all but saying that Democrats will filibuster anyone Trump nominates and that the GOP likes, and is declaring Trump’s pick illegitimate entirely. But now that Senate Republicans have broken precedent by refusing to confirm a Supreme Court nominee, Democrats are planning their own form of payback-and they’re taking a page out of the G.O.P. playbook to do it.

According to the New York Post: “Trump ‘said to Schumer he likes Schumer more than [House Speaker Paul] Ryan and [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell because they both wanted him to lose, ‘ a transition source told the [newspaper]”. We ask the president-elect, ‘If you repeal the ACA, what are you going to do to protect them?

Democrats are promising to devote special attention to Tillerson, as well as to others nominees, including billionaire Betsy DeVos, an advocate of private sector educational initiatives who has been tapped to run the Department of Education, and fast food executive Andrew Puzder, who is set to run the Department of Labor.

Tom Price, Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services, is also on the Democrats’ target list. “And the original intent of doing all of them the first week or two isn’t going to work”, Schumer said. However, Democrats want hearings for each of the eight nominees to be held on separate weeks and no more than two Cabinet picks getting a hearing in the same week. This time of course President Barack Obama was the one selecting his replacement, and Schumer was horrified that Republicans were blocking his eventual nominee before he or she was even announced. In January 2009, the Senate confirmed 10 of Obama’s Cabinet choices within his first week as president, nine of them by voice vote, in which senators’ yes and no votes aren’t recorded.

One potential member of Trump’s Cabinet has withdrawn his name from consideration.

“It is not acceptable to repeal the law, throw our health-care system into chaos, and then leave the hard work for another day”, Schumer said. Trump wrote in a series of tweets Wednesday. Republicans had voted in a closed-door meeting Monday to bring the independent OCE under the control of the GOP-dominated House Ethics Committee, which Democrats and ethics advocates condemned as flying in the face of Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp”. Cosgrove considered that and said he couldn’t get out of his Cleveland Clinic commitment, the source said.

New York’s senior Democratic senator reiterated pledges to work with Trump and Republicans in Congress whenever possible.

Schumer, potentially Trump’s top adversary in Congress, quickly added that he is aware the president-elect may be trying to flatter him.

In a December 21 tweet, Schumer called Mulvaney’s fiscal policies – including his push for cuts to Medicare and Social Security – “a deal breaker” for Trump’s selection for budget chief.

Spicer was asked on This Week about Trump’s Twitter statement December 22 that the U.S.