Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Senate Republicans Flooding Our Government With Trump Loyalists

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor rebuking Senate Republicans for trying to ram through a nominations package full of Trump loyalists and MAGA cronies. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Trump’s main priority is his pointless vanity projects, but he has another: packing our government to the rafters with far-right-wing extremists.

Senate Republicans are ramming through a nominations package that’ll put a grab-bag of charlatans and MAGA foot soldiers into the highest positions of power.

The Senate GOP knows how absurd some of these nominees are, which is why they’re trying to flood the zone and push them through with a single vote. They couldn't withstand sunlight. They couldn't withstand spotlight. They couldn't withstand the scrutiny that individual nominations process would have done to them.

All these nominees will have different jobs, but they share the same qualification: absolute loyalty to Donald Trump, no matter how ridiculous his policies are.

The American people expect more from their government than just blind loyalty to Donald Trump.

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