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Raw Story: Top Trump advisor makes direct threat to Republicans wavering on Cabinet picks: report
Raw Story - Top Trump advisor makes direct threat to Republicans wavering on Cabinet picks: report
David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
November 21, 2024 1:58PM ET
A senior Donald Trump official has issued a threat to Senate Republicans: support and confirm the Cabinet and administration nominees the president-elect is choosing or face a primary challenge funded by the world’s richest person, according to a new report from ABC News.
Jonathan Karl, ABC’s Chief Washington Correspondent reports, “the Trump team will play hardball with Republicans who waiver [sic] on any of the president-elect’s nominees.”
“There’s votes coming,” the Trump advisor said, according to Karl. “And if you are on the wrong side of the vote, you’re buying yourself a primary. That is all. And there’s a guy named Elon Musk who is going to finance it.”
“The president gets to decide his cabinet. No one else. That’s just the way it is,” that advisor added, Karl reports.
The U.S. Constitution requires the Senate to provide its “advice and consent” on a large number of presidential nominees, which is not a rubber stamp. It reads in part: the President “shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate…”
Democratic strategist Matt McDermott responded to Karl’s reporting, observing: “This has never, in the history of American democracy, been ‘just the way it is.'”
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David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
November 21, 2024 1:58PM ET
A senior Donald Trump official has issued a threat to Senate Republicans: support and confirm the Cabinet and administration nominees the president-elect is choosing or face a primary challenge funded by the world’s richest person, according to a new report from ABC News.
Jonathan Karl, ABC’s Chief Washington Correspondent reports, “the Trump team will play hardball with Republicans who waiver [sic] on any of the president-elect’s nominees.”
“There’s votes coming,” the Trump advisor said, according to Karl. “And if you are on the wrong side of the vote, you’re buying yourself a primary. That is all. And there’s a guy named Elon Musk who is going to finance it.”
“The president gets to decide his cabinet. No one else. That’s just the way it is,” that advisor added, Karl reports.
The U.S. Constitution requires the Senate to provide its “advice and consent” on a large number of presidential nominees, which is not a rubber stamp. It reads in part: the President “shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate…”
Democratic strategist Matt McDermott responded to Karl’s reporting, observing: “This has never, in the history of American democracy, been ‘just the way it is.'”
/snip
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