The Senate Judiciary Committee gave its approval of President Biden‘s attorney general nominee Judge Merrick Garland on Monday, following a vote of 15 to 7. Garland’s nomination will now advance to a vote by the full Senate, which will ultimately decide whether he becomes the next...
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McConnell would support Trump if he got 2024 Republican nomination
During his interview with Baier, McConnell stopped short of offering his immediate support for Trump in what is likely to be a crowded Republican 2024 field. McConnell stressed that numerous other Republicans had also hinted their intentions of a 2024 presidential run. “There’s a lot...
Mitt Romney predicts Donald Trump would win 2024 Republican nomination in ‘landslide’
Romney predicts Trump would win the 2024 GOP nomination in a ‘landslide’ if he ran again – and the senator says he will get behind a nominee who represents his ‘tiny wing’ of the party Romney was speaking with the New York Times’s DealBook DC...
Neera Tanden committee vote postponed as nomination on rocks
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) and Budget Committees postponed planned business meetings Wednesday where they were supposed to vote on President Biden’s nomination of Neera Tanden to be the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Tanden’s nomination was on shaky...
How the White House botched the Neera nomination
Biden and his aides insist that Tanden’s prospects are not doomed. But her fate now hinges on Sen. Lisa Murkowski swooping in to save the nomination. Even if the independent-minded Alaska Republican were to do that, the saga would still mark one of the biggest...