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Senate confirms 48 of Trump’s nominees at once after changing the chamber’s rules

apnews.com Senate confirms 48 of Trump's nominees at once after changing the chamber's rules

The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees. Republicans acted for the first time under new rules to clear a backlog of executive branch positions that had been delayed by Democrats.

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Is this the same rule Democrats were reluctant to change under Obama and Biden because they were afraid what Republicans would do with it?
- "No one could have predicted this."
- I love all the hand wringing that goes on with this kind of thing. Like the filibuster too, all that fretting but as soon as it no longer serves the GOP goons they will remove it themselves.
  
  The swing back is usually worse though. By doing something unprecedented, you give the opposition permission to go farther than you did.
- Yes. They were accused of stalling and the house Republicans changed the rule to fix the process.
  
  "Fix" is a word with many meanings.

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