WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has announced a plan to change the rules to ensure a faster confirmation process for President Donald Trump’s nominees.
Thune previewed the changes in an op-ed published on Breitbart on the morning of Sept. 8.
The majority leader said the new approach was adapted from one developed in 2023 by two senators, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats. At the time, Senate Republicans were erecting their own roadblocks to then-President Joe Biden’s nominees.
Klobuchar and King introduced a resolution to increase the number of nominees that the full Senate can consider en bloc—that is, simultaneously in a block….
Thune Plans to Change Senate Rules to Speed Up Trump’s Nominations
