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ARTICLE VIEW:
Senate confirms 48 Trump nominees in single vote, after Republicans
went ‘nuclear’ to speed up confirmations
By Morgan Rimmer, CNN
Updated:
5:40 PM EDT, Thu September 18, 2025
Source: CNN
The Senate confirmed 48 of ’s nominees in one sweeping vote Thursday,
marking the first bloc confirmed after Republicans voted to change
Senate rules to speed up the consideration of nominees.
Those confirmed included Kimberly Guilfoyle as the ambassador to
Greece, Christine Toretti as the ambassador to Sweden and Callista
Gingrich as the ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Former GOP
Rep. Brandon Williams was also confirmed as under secretary for nuclear
security.
The move by Senate Republicans comes after last week they pushed
through using the so-called nuclear option over the objections of
Democrats. The rules change allows nominees to be considered en bloc,
or as a group, as tensions have grown over several months between the
two parties over the backlog of Trump’s nominees awaiting Senate
confirmation.
GOP senators have complained for months that Democrats, who are angry
over many of Trump’s actions, have slow-walked virtually all of his
nominees and are making it hard on the new administration to get fully
up and running. Democrats, they argue, have abandoned what they call
Senate “precedent” to confirm many lower-level jobs by voice vote
or unanimous consent and in groups of nominees, not just individually.
Meanwhile, Democrats, who years ago used the “nuclear option” to
weaken the filibuster for nominees in the face of GOP intransigence,
complain the GOP plan means unqualified nominees will escape scrutiny
– something Republicans deny.
Republicans’ rule change applies only to executive branch civilian
nominees, not Cabinet members nor the judiciary.
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