McConnell Trump warning – When it was announced that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would be stepping down from his position as the Republican Senate leader last year, many began to focus on the eventual replacement of the longtime Kentucky Senator.
Few talked about the impact that the outgoing leader would have on votes for the remainder of his term.
During President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet confirmation process, McConnell is proving himself to be a willful dissident to the Republican President’s selections.
Once a willing participant in Trump’s radical change to the judicial process, approving a whopping 234 federal judge nominations during the President’s first term, McConnell is now showing himself to be among the New York Billionaire’s primary opposition in the U.S Senate Republican caucus.
Worse for Trump and his allies, heavy promises of primary opponents being deployed to combat any Republican Senator who dares object to Trump’s appointment are useless against McConnell, who will willingly depart his position in the U.S. Senate in 2028 after his final term is completed.
McConnell Likely To Oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Confirmation As Health And Human Services Secretary
Mitch McConnell, born in 1942, is a survivor of childhood polio, a disease that has largely been eradicated due to effective treatments and preventative vaccinations in early childhood.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been an opponent of the polio vaccine, which he has routinely accused of being the chief cause of childhood polio in the United States in recent years.
Kennedy has even claimed that vaccines routinely scheduled by parents in the United States are the ultimate cause of rising autism rates in the country, a fact that is largely disputed by the medical community.
McConnell Trump warning – McConnell’s Warning To RFK Jr. And Other Trump Nominees
McConnell recently issued a stark warning to all Trump cabinet nominees concerning the polio vaccines, saying to reporters, “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed—they’re dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.”
The longtime Kentucky Senator’s statement highlights an overall unhappiness within traditional Republican circles with the direction that Trump has taken his cabinet selections. Away from traditional Republicans, and towards more centrist politicians, and even former Democrats.
Those in establishment Republican circles in Washington D.C. appear terrified of losing their power within their own Party, something that may have already occurred under the emergence of Donald Trump in 2016.
Senator John Thune’s ascension to Senate Majority Leader, succeeding McConnell’s term certainly displays that the traditional Republican establishment still holds a stranglehold on the Republican Senate.
Though Trump has aimed to and successfully weakened McConnell’s hand in the Senate, just three Republican Senators could derail the appointment of any Trump nominees, barring Democrat support.
Fetterman, Sanders, Other Democrats Considering Supporting Kennedy Jr. For HHS Secretary
At least five traditionally Democrat votes in the Senate have voiced their openness to voting in favor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation to Secretary of Health and Human Services. Those Democrats are,
- Senator John Fetterman (Pennsylvania)
- Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
- Senator Cory Booker (New Jersey)
- Senator Kirstin Gillibrand (Massachusetts)
Any number of these Democrat defectors choosing to vote in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may derail establishment Republican attempts to keep the former Democrat Presidential candidate away from his nominated position.
If multiple Senators from the Democrat Party vote in favor of Kennedy, his confirmation almost becomes assured.
Senator John Fetterman is the first Democrat Senator to accept a meeting with President-elect Trump at Mar-A-Lago, a fact that may hint at Fetterman’s willingness to vote for Kennedy’s confirmation.
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