It is significant that the Pres-elect nominated Rep. Chavez-DeRemer for Labor. Her record suggests real support of workers & their right to unionize. I hope it means the Trump admin will actually respect collective bargaining and workers' voices from Teamsters to teachers.

— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣 (@rweingarten) November 23, 2024

Gonna be honest. It doesn't feel like we're winning anymore.

Watching Trump roll about cabinet picks for a couple weeks like: pic.twitter.com/8r52Z0LhW3

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) November 23, 2024

Ugh. Hell, just a last name like Chavez-DeRemer would have ruled her out if I were picking. That name automatically reeks of union-backing and amnesty-loving.

Most diverse cabinet ever?

Another horrible pick.

Rollins is a fabulous pick. She will take over an agency with 100k employees in every county in the US.

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Rollins is a fabulous pick. She will take over an agency with 100k employees in every county in the US.

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Rollins is a great pick. Class of '94 I believe.

Pretty sure Rapier was grumping-TDS-related to the labor pick though, which is likely related to the support Trump received from various labor/education union folks.

🚨 BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump completes his Cabinet of 15 executive departments in historic speed.

He won the election only 18 days ago - just over 2 weeks.

Line of presidential succession:
State: Marco Rubio
Treasury: Scott Bessent
Defense: Pete Hegseth
Attorney… pic.twitter.com/l6eIalP5U1

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 23, 2024

Everyone one of these folks has pledged to reduce the headcount. I'm guessing 10 percent first 90 days, 20 percent first year.

More good than bad. A few great, most ok or better, a few I'm not sure, and a couple wth are you serious right now? Like Labor.

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Everyone one of these folks has pledged to reduce the headcount. I'm guessing 10 percent first 90 days, 20 percent first year.

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That might be enough to offset other aspects.

A different thing wondering about -- is there some special advantage to announcing and telegraphing all these so far in advance? Would be really tempted to wait till closer to the first day of the new Congress in January to give less time for a bunch of counter static or undermining measures.

Maybe this has an advantage not seeing. Gaetz getting shot down did not really surprise.

BREAKING: Republican Senator Jim Risch declines to support President Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.

Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/ucNq0cQDfI

— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) November 24, 2024

Democrats doing their thing to obstruct Trump.

They're just gonna have a revolving door on the 4th Senator with McConnel, Collins, and Murkowski.

NEW: GOP Senator James Lankford is skeptical of voting for Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as Director of National Intelligence, says he has a “lot of questions”

pic.twitter.com/Zu2kQ7g0pR

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 24, 2024

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They're just gonna have a revolving door on the 4th Senator with McConnel, Collins, and Murkowski.

NEW: GOP Senator James Lankford is skeptical of voting for Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as Director of National Intelligence, says he has a “lot of questions”

pic.twitter.com/Zu2kQ7g0pR

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 24, 2024

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But he is the one that went along with the plan to establish Biden's style of border and to remove Texas from having any say in it.

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They're just gonna have a revolving door on the 4th Senator with McConnel, Collins, and Murkowski.

NEW: GOP Senator James Lankford is skeptical of voting for Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as Director of National Intelligence, says he has a “lot of questions”

pic.twitter.com/Zu2kQ7g0pR

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 24, 2024

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Oh yeah...

The guy who gave the Democrats cover on that "Border Bill" by being the ONLY Republican that supported it...

ETA: I didn't see titan's comment before posting mine but it looks like we think alike.

Wow, Mark Levin just went on a solid tear about recess appointments, the whole gamut of the history, justification, and abuses of 'advice and consent' going on primarily by the leftists today/over the past 40 years (going back to Reagan).

This is 13 minutes, longer than most will watch, I know, but he is right about every point/historical reference imho.

MUST WATCH!: Mark Levin gives Democrat -Bureaucrats and some Liberal-Republican-Bureaucrats an Education Lesson on Recess Appointments@marklevinshow - "You can look at modern presidents up to Barack Obama. You see Franklin Roosevelt used the clause 89 times and by the way, he… pic.twitter.com/kKM8oqxwid

— Dusty (@thatdudedusty) November 24, 2024

What's the point of advice and consent if they won't even deal with mayorkas?

Wray is history, funny to see this even posited by the commies:

10 years is a “max” term. The Dir. serves at the will of POTUS. They resign when told to do so or they are fired. https://t.co/oKgjXe1AT1

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) November 24, 2024

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Wray is history, funny to see this even posited by the commies:

10 years is a “max” term. The Dir. serves at the will of POTUS. They resign when told to do so or they are fired. https://t.co/oKgjXe1AT1

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) November 24, 2024

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The cause...

Reminder that ZERO Democrats voted against any of Biden's lunatic picks for his cabinet:

Elon Musk Fires Off Warning Shot at Dirty Senate RINOs: “Whoever Thwarts the Will of the People Will Lose Either Their Primary of the Mid-Term Election” https://t.co/yidXbf2viS

— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) November 25, 2024

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Reminder that ZERO Democrats voted against any of Biden's lunatic picks for his cabinet:

Elon Musk Fires Off Warning Shot at Dirty Senate RINOs: “Whoever Thwarts the Will of the People Will Lose Either Their Primary of the Mid-Term Election” https://t.co/yidXbf2viS

— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) November 25, 2024

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The bold is enough reason that static to Trump's picks should stop with Gaetz. Given the clear sailing given to al of Biden's destructive picks, and the 2020 nonsense, the Republican side is owed an admin that reflects their wishes too, not those of the uniparty.

There are many Republicans that need to lose pensions too. If need be, Trump should just have a big cabinet of ministers without portfolio. As CinC, his pick of Hegseth would be the easiest to work informally -- just makes orders out of any of his suggestions he likes. Bypass any non-confirmation that way.

Questioning Trump Cabinet picks (or any Trump decision) gets one labeled a "CM" around these parts, and will get you "primaried" by Elon if in Congress

Agreed. And even without a single cabinet appointee hearing yet, or being in office, he's substantially solving the invasion and fentanyl crises, with one phone call.

Lol, I didn't know Trump threatened to reveal the Mexican government's cartel connections unless they do what he wants on the border.

And he threatened massive tariffs.

And he threatened to send in Special Forces to get the cartels.

So...it looks like Mexico is planning to be… https://t.co/feofxLaNy0

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 25, 2024

Let's just give him the people he wants to work with and see what he can do to unscrew this situation Biden-Harris has created.

This isn't really about questioning, as some of the picks may be just unsuitable even by right standards. Doubts raised once interviews begin is different from out of the gate opposition.

This concern is more about doormat behavior like this:

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3511589/last

Look at the pass he gives for Iran dabblings and Garland politicization as AG -- he let's CNN's narrative stand.

JUST IN: President-elect Donald Trump has just announced three key White House office directors.

His legislative affairs director served with the House Freedom Caucus.

These 3 roles are MASSIVE in the day-to-day. All of these men have extensive experience.

JAMES BRAID:… pic.twitter.com/JlaEcyYCtB

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 25, 2024

I hope we flush the toilet on any RINOs who aren't getting with the program.

Cenk Uygur is supporting Chavez-DeRemer for Labor Secretary

🚨 BREAKING: Trump transition team signs memorandum of understanding with the Biden White House.

It will allow Trump's Cabinet nominees to begin "critical preparation," such as sending "landing teams" into every department. pic.twitter.com/MQgOj0GrLf

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 26, 2024

Trump says that his transition team will not use government resources because they want to save money. However, this is merely a smokescreen. What's really happening is that Trump has learned from past experiences, particularly what they did to @genflynn during the previous… pic.twitter.com/M1lFcEVCog

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) November 26, 2024

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This isn't really about questioning, as some of the picks may be just unsuitable even by right standards. Doubts raised once interviews begin is different from out of the gate opposition.

This concern is more about doormat behavior like this:

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3511589/last

Look at the pass he gives for Iran dabblings and Garland politicization as AG -- he let's CNN's narrative stand.

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You implied people need to lose their retirements for how they vote

titan implied that people should lose their retirement for treasonous acts. That's not an insignificant distinction.

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Questioning Trump Cabinet picks (or any Trump decision) gets one labeled a "CM" around these parts, and will get you "primaried" by Elon if in Congress

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At the rate this is headed, we'll likely have a golden statue of Elon in DC by Jan 20th