President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Republicans to try to overcome possible Democrat efforts to delay Senate confirmation of his Cabinet choices.
Republicans are slated to have a 53–47 majority over Democrats in the Senate, the chamber that confirms presidential appointments. Several of Trump’s selections for Cabinet positions have faced resistance from Democratic senators and some Republicans.
In a Dec. 31 post on social media, the president-elect wrote that he “just won a Historic Landslide and Mandate from the American People, but Senate Democrats are organizing to improperly stall and delay the confirmation process of many of our Great Nominees.”
“They will try all sorts of tricks starting very soon,” Trump wrote in his post. “Republicans must not allow them to do that.”...
