John Thune: “either today or tomorrow, we will confirm another nominations package, bringing the total number of the President's…”

“either today or tomorrow, we will confirm another nominations package, bringing the total number of the President's nominees confirmed this year to more than 400. That far exceeds the total confirmations of both President Trump's previous term and President Biden's. It is an impressive number on its own, but it is particularly impressive when you consider the obstacles the Democrats have put up. I am not exaggerating when I say that President Trump's nominees have faced a historic level of obstruction from Senate Democrats. When you look at this term, President Trump remains the only President on record not to have had a single civilian nomination confirmed by unanimous consent or voice vote. Let me repeat that. President Trump remains the only President on record not to have had a single civilian nomination confirmed by unanimous consent or voice vote. Democrats have required a rollcall vote on every single one of the President's nominations, an unprecedented level of obstruction in modern times. Now, of course, Democrats would like you to believe that they have engaged in this historic level of obstruction because the President has put up, in the words of the Democrat leader, 'historically bad nominees.' The only problem is a lot of these nominees have gotten Democrat votes on final passage. So either Democrats are voting for 'historically bad nominees' or something else has been going on here. That something else looks a lot like petty partisanship.”