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Senate Republicans plot new methods to offer Trump every little thing he needs

Editorial Board Published August 11, 2025
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After leaving Washington, D.C., for the August recess final week with out breaking a Democratic blockade on govt department confirmations, Senate Republicans are actually overtly contemplating going nuclear.

In line with The New York Occasions, the GOP is contemplating swift, unilateral modifications to Senate guidelines to hurry up the affirmation of President Donald Trump’s appointees this fall.

“I think there are going to be rules changes,” Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota instructed the outlet, calling the nominations standoff a “crisis.” 

Notably, Rounds left open the likelihood that his occasion would pursue these modifications by power or via negotiations. 


GOP Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota

On the heart of the controversy is Democrats’ insistence on formal roll-call votes for almost each govt department nominee, which has stalled Trump’s efforts to fill dozens of high posts. In response, Republicans are considering eradicating procedural hurdles, like shortening the wait instances between procedural and closing votes, confirming a number of nominees directly, and decreasing the variety of positions requiring Senate approval.

“This is not going to stand for much longer,” warned Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. 

Cotton actually isn’t one to speak. Underneath President Barack Obama, Cotton positioned a maintain on nominee Cassandra Butts—so lengthy that she died earlier than she could possibly be confirmed.

The specter of a guidelines overhaul comes as Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the federal government. A partisan escalation may undo the uncommon progress each chambers have made on spending payments.

It’s additionally not the primary time that both occasion has thought of nuclear choices. Democrats did so in 2013 beneath Senate Majority Chief Harry Reid, reducing the vote threshold on most nominees after Republicans blocked Obama’s judicial picks. 

The GOP adopted swimsuit in 2017, eradicating the filibuster for Supreme Courtroom nominees and paving the best way for Trump to nominate three justices. 

Democrats once more tried in 2022 to decrease the bar for voting rights payments however have been blocked by Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, moderates who pressured Democrats to water down many payments and blocked extra bold reforms all through their time in Congress.

The Occasions stories that it stays unclear whether or not Republicans have the required votes to move a nuclear measure. With solely a slim majority, Majority Chief John Thune can afford to lose simply three GOP senators—and a few stay cautious of breaking Senate norms. 

Earlier than recess, Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, Thune, and the White Home tried to barter a deal to substantiate 150 Trump nominees. Democrats supplied to approve about 25 noncontroversial candidates in alternate for the White Home releasing withheld funds—together with $5 billion for the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, $50 million for international AIDS packages, $142 million for UNICEF, and $300 million for Gaza humanitarian support.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on President Donald Trump's spending and tax bill, Thursday, June 12, 2025, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer

After Republicans pushed for extra confirmations, Democrats demanded a written promise that Trump wouldn’t search extra spending cuts earlier than October, however negotiations collapsed. True to kind, Trump responded on Reality Social, telling Schumer to “GO TO HELL!” 

Then Thune adjourned the Senate, sending lawmakers dwelling. 

“We offered him very reasonable things,” Schumer mentioned of Trump. “He got nothing and walked away with his tail between his legs.” 

Republicans, in flip, claimed that Democrats additionally got here up empty. 

“They walked away without getting the additional funding they could have had with an agreement,” Rounds mentioned.

General, Trump has secured 135 confirmations in his first six months again in workplace—simply shy of Biden’s 150 throughout the identical interval in 2021. Whereas about half of Biden’s picks handed by voice vote, Trump’s face roll-call votes one after the other.

That’s exactly the obstruction Republicans purpose to get rid of. The one query is, are they keen to interrupt the principles to do it?

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