Senate Republicans won the first round of the power struggle with Trump after the president-elect’s attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration.
Gates posted on X: “It is clear that my confirmation unfairly interfered with the important work of the Trump/Vance transition. We have no time to waste on unnecessarily prolonged Washington brawls. That is why I am the Attorney General. Withdraw names from consideration for office. Trump’s Justice Department must be staffed and ready from day one.”
playing cards With four Republican senators opposing Gaetz, the crew is trying to soft-sell the withdrawal. In reality, more than half of Republican senators opposed Gaetz, and even President Trump’s threats were not enough to sway them.
Trump learned a cruel lesson about the limits of his power. Donald Trump will not be able to choose his own Cabinet or become a dictator because neither Republicans nor Democrats are willing to relinquish their powers in the Senate. If Trump wants to get things done, he will need the Senate, which still needs 60 votes to pass the bill.
Gaetz’s nomination was a test for Trump to see if he could bully the Senate into relinquishing power to him. The Senate did not respond. President Trump has two other nominees for Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the confirmation battle will be difficult.
RFK Jr. could be the next nominee for the ousted President Trump, but the implosion of Gaetz’s nomination shows that President Trump will not dance around as a dictator and is constitutionally This shows that some of the principles still remain.
