DEMS/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “About 100 of President Donald Trump’s nominees have been kicked back to the White House, prolonging an unusually high number of vacancies across his administration and escalating the Senate’s long-running nomination wars.
While the Senate agreed to keep roughly 150 of Trump’s picks for consideration next year, it refused to do so on roughly 100 others, according to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office. That means the White House will have to renominate them if Trump wants them installed…
That will trigger a requirement that nominees’ paperwork be up to date — a gargantuan task for some nominees who’ve been languishing in the Senate for months, especially if their net worth changed dramatically because of the surging stock market…
But Democrats said the caliber of Trump’s nominees warranted a break from tradition.”
–Andrew Restuccia and Seung Min Kim, “Democrats block dozens of Trump nominees,” Politico, Dec. 22, 2017 11:37am