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It is Sunday, November the 17th, 64 days until Donald Trump's second inauguration.

And as he begins to make good on his promise to stack the government with loyalists,

some of his cabinet picks have proven so dangerously unqualified that the countdown to inauguration day is becoming a deadline of sorts

for Trump himself. With a slate of nominees so controversial that even fellow Republicans are

balking at some of his choices, Trump has turned to pressure to push Republicans in the Senate

to abdicate their constitutional

responsibility to advise and consent. Now, ordinarily, nominees for the cabinet and many other

senior positions in the federal government would be vetted and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

But the president-elect is already putting Republican lawmakers through a loyalty stress test of sorts,

demanding that the new Republican-led Senate, the legislative branch of government, give up

one of the few and most important checks that it has on the presidency and on the executive

branch of the government. Members of Congress from both sides of the aisles have already begun

voicing concerns about some of Trump's cabinet choices, including the anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS and Tulsi Gabbard, who's been accused of being a Putin apologist as the director of national intelligence.

NBC News is also reporting that a majority of Republican senators are privately saying that they don't see a

path forward for Trump's pick for the Attorney General, Matt Gates. Now, this early pushback suggests

that Trump might not be able to easily push through his entire cabinet of dangerously

unqualified picks the way he wants. Normally, the Senate has the responsibility to confirm these

appointments, and that is a power that is explicitly written into the Constitution. Quote,

the president shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint

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