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demmiblue

(38,760 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:38 PM Sep 18

Senate confirms 48 Trump nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich

Source: NBC News

The Senate confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump's nominees in a single vote on Thursday after the Republican majority triggered the "nuclear option" to make a far-reaching rule change.

The party-line vote of 51-47 confirms a slew of Trump picks for sub-Cabinet positions and ambassadors. They include former Rep. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y., as under secretary for nuclear security; former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece; and Callista Gingrich, wife of the former House speaker, as ambassador to both Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

It came after Senate Republicans voted to overturn existing rules with a simple majority to bypass the 60-vote threshold for confirming nominees in batches. The GOP effort to go "nuclear" — the term for changing Senate rules on a party-line basis — was unanimous, joined by centrist Sens. Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska.

Democrats voted at every turn to stop the rule change, but with only 47 seats, they didn't have enough votes.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-confirms-48-trump-nominees-kimberly-guilfoyle-callista-gingrich-rcna231946

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Buddyzbuddy

(1,537 posts)
2. Senator Fetterman, is this what you meant when you said Democrats need to work with Republicans.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:58 PM
Sep 18

Is this working for you.
How about the rest of the Democratic Senators that want decorum including reaching out to our "friends" from across the aisle.
Not working.

bluestarone

(20,353 posts)
3. America sure went to HELL!
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 06:00 PM
Sep 18

Dirty BASTARDS!! I picture these rethugs laughing their ass's off!! God dam, i hate these scumbags!!

C_U_L8R

(48,157 posts)
5. The really pathetic thing about Republicans
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 07:16 PM
Sep 18

They can’t win without cheating. They are such losers.

AverageOldGuy

(2,989 posts)
6. ". . . Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece; and Callista Gingrich . . . as ambassador to Switzerland and . . "
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 07:22 PM
Sep 18

From time to time I read or hear something so blazingly, totally stupid I am at a loss for what to say.

This is one of those times.

I would suggest one edit to the OP: The part about Callista Gingrich should read ". . . Callista Gingrich, Newt's third wife who was one of his Congressional staffers that he was banging on the office desk while still married to his second wife and while impeaching Bill Clinton for receiving a BJ in the Oval Office, was named . . . . " There, that's better.

Dulcinea

(9,185 posts)
8. "Beauty is only skin deep...
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:49 PM
Sep 18

...but ugly goes all the way to the bone." Attributed to Dorothy Parker

That is all.

10. Can they send Newt to Switzerland with her?
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 01:05 AM
Sep 19

Maybe he'll get buried in an avalanche, or maybe just locked up for doing cocaine...

kerouac2

(1,292 posts)
11. Gop is like a group of hackers
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 08:11 AM
Sep 19

Constantly attacking for weaknesses and loopholes in our system. And even when it's illegal, they do it anyway and tie it up in courts while it does damage. Their ends justify any means they use, and their goals are always horrible. Something is seriously wrong with these people and they are creating more just like them with their manipulation. It's breathtaking...

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