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Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz puts a hold on Trump's State Department nominees (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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About f*cking time.

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least its better than nothing. They will still get confirmed it will just take a year or more to do so.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Musk and Rubio didn't need to be confirmed to start wreaking havoc on USAID, which is supposedly out of reach of the federal cabinets, so I think this will only be notable for historic purposes.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

it's the only lever legally available to them and the only notable thing about it is that it took them 3 weeks to pull it.