Block Trump's Cabinet Picks Petition Surges Online

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Source: Newsweek

Published Nov 28, 2024 at 11:52 AM EST | Updated Nov 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM EST


An online petition urging the Senate to block President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominations is gaining momentum. The petition, set up by the progressive advocacy group MoveOn, has attracted more than 44,000 signatures since it was set up five days ago. This figure is more than double the 20,000 it achieved one day after it went live. The group focuses on vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (health) and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth (defense) as Trump picks the Senate should reject.

Hegseth has faced criticism for his lack of necessary experience for the top Cabinet role, and was accused of sexual assault in 2017, which he denies and was never charged over. "The Senate must reject these Cabinet nominees to protect working Americans from the dysfunction our federal agencies will face under the direction of these appointees," MoveOn wrote on the petition's page. "We're worth fighting for and we deserve better."

The symbolic petition, even if it becomes more popular, is unlikely to influence the nomination process for Trump's Cabinet picks. With the GOP set to control the Senate with a 53-47 seat majority next year, even some of the president-elect's more contentious picks are likely to be confirmed.

It is extremely rare for Cabinet appointees to be rejected by a vote on the Senate floor. It has only happened nine times in U.S. history, mostly in the 19th century. The last time was in 1989, when George H.W. Bush's pick for defense secretary, John G. Tower, was rejected by a vote of 47-53 in a Democrat-controlled upper chamber.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/block-trump-cabinet-picks-petition-moveon-1993154

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Link to MoveON PETITION - The Senate Must Block Trump’s Cabinet Nominees

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Online petitions' primary purposes are data scraping and fund raising. Nt

[ck4829]

2. Then again, pretty much everything involves someone getting data and money from you

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Sounds good to me!!

[PSPS]

4. "Petitions" are meaningless

[ck4829]

9. About as meaningless as voting apparently

[Phoenix61]

5. You know all the bs maneuvers R's do to delay

legislation? I hope Dems are ready to do the exact same.

[RandiFan1290]

10. Gotta be careful!

We wouldn't want to upset the 'independents' that voted for trump again!

Might be seen as too 'extreme' and 'radical left'

[HUAJIAO]

6. Surging? 44,000 sigs? UH, I don't THINK so!

[Karasu]

7. The real problem is that such blatantly unqualified people are even allowed to be nominated in the first place.

At the very least, Congress absolutely cannot afford to give him recess appointments, or they've rendered themselves obsolete for all time. Give an authoritarian an inch and they'll run a mile.

[Mr.Bee]

12. I nomenate

LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow for Secretary of Education!

[Karasu]

14. Right? Hell, LeVar would actually be an insanely qualified choice compared to any of these yahoos.

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He sure as hell wouldn't do any worse.

[live love laugh]

8. lol

[jvill]

11. Uh oh. Here comes a strongly worded letter! Look out!!

The GOP is getting ready to loot the treasury and bring soft Facism to America.

And liberals got a whole neighborhood in Brooklyn to sign an online petition. That'll show 'em...

[kimbutgar]

13. I would be weary signing this as the names might be put on an enemies list

That will be surveilled/ harassed in the orange Hitler 2.0 administration.

[Marthe48]

15. I don't mind

When bush was installed in 2000, I thought about what I'd do for my country. I decided I'd die for it. Dramatic? Yes. So in spite of knowing I'm putting myself out there, at least the enemies of America know I protest.