Trump pushes for recess appointments.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that any Republican senator hoping to obtain the position of majority leader would have to approve of recess appointments for his cabinet nominees. Typically, nominees for Cabinet positions, executive offices, or high-level ambassadorships undergo a hearing where they are asked questions by members of the Senate who then vote on whether to confirm an appointee. Only a simple majority is needed for confirmation.
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| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some |
| 1:27.5 | independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's |
| 1:31.7 | episode, we're going to be talking about recess appointments and some of Donald Trump's most |
| 1:38.5 | recent nominees for big cabinet positions, including, I think, three of the most controversial people |
| 1:45.6 | pretty unambiguously that he has nominated so far. |
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