Republicans change Senate rules to confirm Trump’s draft pick

Senate Republicans accelerated presidential confirmation for the fourth time in Senate history Thursday after a failed attempt to obtain a bipartisan agreement Donald Trump’s Nominee.

Republicans threaten to turn to “nuclear choice”, which will allow rules to be changed with a simple majority vote, thereby blocking from Senate Democrats Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lawmakers are frustrated that in the first nine months of Trump’s presidency, no candidate has voted through quick unanimous consent or voice.

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The Republican rule change was born from a democratic proposal that revived from 2023 and will now allow lawmakers to vote on Trump’s nominees in batches.

Senate Republicans The change in rules is beneficial to current and future governments and applies only to the Senate’s requirement for two-hour debate, including sub-level positions and administrative branches.

Judicial nominees, such as district court judges and district attorneys, are not part of the change of rules. Earlier next week, lawmakers are expected to farm through dozens of nominees under new rules, with the aim of clearing the backlog of Trump’s draft pick, which grew to more than 140.

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

But before resorting to the nuclear program, lawmakers approached a bipartisan agreement that would allow 15 nominees to vote in a two-hour debate.

D-Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz blocked new proposals on the floor and believed Senate Republicans were trying to rush through the negotiation process before planning a weekend away from Washington.

“What they ask for is consistency, we don’t,” he said. “So if you’re interested in the process of doing this on a bipartisan basis – it can provide you. But again, it’s more important than a matter of patience than running out of time.”

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Frustrated Senate Majority Leader John ThuneRs.d. Fire backward: “How much time is there enough?”

“Please take a break,” he said. “Two years. Not long enough. About eight months? eight months.”

The nuclear process began earlier this week when Thune raised 48 nominees, all of which conducted committees on a bipartisan basis to confirm the floor.

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“It’s time to move,” Thun said. “It’s time to quit. It’s time to vote. It’s time to fix this place. The ideal way to fix it is to do it in a bipartisan way.”

Since 2010, both sides have turned to nuclear programs many times. In 2013, then-Minority Leader Harry Reed (D-Nev).

Four years later, then the majority leader Mickey McConnellr-ky. Nuclearization was carried out to allow Supreme Court nominees to confirm with a simple majority. In 2019, McConnell cut the debate time to two hours of civilian nominations.