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Can Trump Really Bypass Senate To Fill His Cabinet?

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The reality show that is President-elect Donald Trump’s White House appointments keeps on rolling. In the last few days, Trump has picked World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon to be his Secretary of Education, former acting Attorney General and toilet scammer Matthew Whitaker for U.S. ambassador to NATO, and billionaire former finance executive Howard Lutnick for Secretary of Commerce. Can any of these people win confirmation from the Senate? TBD! But Trump’s team says it doesn’t really matter because they want to force the president-elect’s unqualified picks through with recess appointments. Casey Burgat, director of the Legislative Affairs program at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, explains how that would work.

And in headlines: Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders forced a Senate vote to stop the U.S. from selling weapons to Israel, more details emerge about the sexual misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Texas has offered up thousands of acres of land to the Trump administration to construct deportation facilities.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, November 21st. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show where we will not stop calling Campbell's Soup, Gamble Soup, despite their efforts to rebrand.

0:11.4

Because that's what it is. It's soup made by Campbell's. This isn't hard.

0:28.6

On today's show, Texas offers Trump land for his mass deportation plans, and there are new details about the allegations against Matt Gates.

0:29.8

Let's get into it.

0:35.3

The reality show that is President-elect Donald Trump's White House appointments keeps on rolling.

0:38.7

But unlike other bad reality TV, we are all a captive audience to the cast of clowns being paraded in front of our eyeballs. Late Tuesday night,

0:43.6

Trump picks Linda McMahon, the former chief executive of world wrestling entertainment to be his

0:47.9

next secretary of education. Does she have a lot of hands-on education experience? No. But she did spend about a year on the

0:55.5

Connecticut State Board of Education before two failed runs for Senate. On the other hand,

1:00.3

if confirmed, McMahon will almost certainly be the first cabinet secretary to be body-slammed,

1:04.9

or, more specifically, tombstoneed by a professional wrestler on TV. Then there's Trump's

1:10.4

pick for Ambassador to NATO.

1:12.4

On Wednesday, he selected former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker for the job.

1:16.6

Does he have a foreign policy background?

1:19.0

No.

1:20.1

But in addition to his previous work in the Justice Department,

1:22.8

he did help run a scam hawking toilets for well-endowed men.

1:26.9

And finally, there's Trump's pick for

1:28.7

Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnik, a billionaire former finance executive, and Trump's current

1:33.6

transition advisor. Trump said this week that Lutnik will, quote, lead our tariff and trade agenda,

1:39.7

and agenda a lot of Republicans aren't really on board with because they don't like tariffs.

1:44.9

So the big question a lot of us are asking is, how many of these people can actually make it

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