Trump's Next Challenge: Confirming Cabinet Nominees

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

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Summary

President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he could rely on recess appointments to get his preferred cabinet picks into position if the Senate won't confirm them. But, some conservative legal scholars argue there's another — and untested — way around the Senate's constitutional role to provide "advice and consent" and it may lead to a clash.

This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and political correspondent Susan Davis.

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0:53.1	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics
0:54.8	podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Carrie Johnson. I cover the Justice
0:58.9	Department. And I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. Today on the show, an incoming challenge for
1:03.6	President-elect Trump, getting his cabinet secretaries confirmed. He has proposed a path that could
1:09.2	set up a full-on constitutional clash with Congress,
1:13.1	and we'll get to that. But, Sue, let's do a little high school civics here. If someone has been
1:17.7	nominated to be a cabinet secretary, what happens next? Well, that nomination goes to the Senate,
1:23.3	which by the Constitution has the advising consent power to basically vet these nominees and either
1:28.1	confirm them or reject them. The nominees would go to the Senate and go through the Committee of
1:33.0	jurisdiction. So the Secretary of State would go to Senate Foreign Relations. The Secretary of
1:37.0	Treasury would go to Senate finance. And it's the committee's job to vet them. This often requires,
1:42.1	especially for nominees in the national security realm,
1:45.3	background checks that are often led by the FBI that will give the committee's reports. These are not
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