Republicans to nuclear on Thursday in Trump nominee lockdown

Senate Democrats are deeply trapped in presidential lockdown Donald Trump’s The nominee, as a Senate Republican, is closer to the Upper House Nuclear.

Republicans are expected to use “nuclear choice” on Thursday and will use a modified Democratic proposal to change Senate rules to clear up the backlog of Trump nominees. But Democrats led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerDN.Y., stood firmly with their resistance.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thuneopposing support from Schumer-led Logjam and accused Senate Democrats of blocking nominees in voice vote or unanimous agreement – two fast training processes are often used to move non-controversial nominees – because of “Trump devastating syndrome.”

“It has to change,” Dunn said. “It’s a problem that Democrats create and we’re going to solve it.”

Thune raised 48 nominees, all of which were withdrawn from the committee on a bipartisan basis for a vote on Thursday. Senate Democrats There is still an option to vote on Trump’s draft pick and avoid nuclear changes, but this result is unlikely.

Instead, Schumer proposed that Republicans reinstate Trump’s intervention last month and told Democratic leaders that “meaningless and unprecedented” deals on nominee packages.

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Senate Minorities After Senate Policy Lunch in Washington, DC on July 9, 2025. (Maxine Wallace/Washington Post via Getty Images)

“I told my Republican colleagues to think carefully before taking this step. If you go nuclear, it will be a decision and you will regret it,” Schumer said.

Republicans are pushing forward initially by Sens. AmyKlobuchar, D-Minn. , Angus King, I-Maine and former Senator Ben Cardin, d-Md. A revised version of the proposed bill that can be confirmed by a group of people, or En Bloc.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)

Democrats showed they were willing to continue the lockdown throughout the week, including then R-Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who tried to raise unanimous agreement among 10 judicial candidates, but was quickly blocked by Schumer.

“The blanket blocks for all nominees are misleading to get political points,” Grassley said.

D-Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz told Fox News Digital that Republicans have not shown a desire to return to the table because negotiations were blown up last month. He said using the Democratic proposal “give them a topic to rely on.” But he said Senate Democrats were not degenerating for it.

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“They have decided to lose patience and using other people’s bills as covers hasn’t really solved the problem,” he said.

Indeed, the Senator John CornynR-Texas provided the original Klobuchar bill on the floor Wednesday night, but the move was blocked by D-Calif’s Senator Alex Padilla, whom D-Calif. He made a proposal to modify Trump’s departure from the office later in 2029.

King, one of the original co-sponsors of the bill, told Fox News Digital that he could not support his legislation to benefit the Trump administration.

“No, it’s different, completely different situations than before,” King said. “I can’t support anything that promotes the president’s stock of the federal government.”