‘The Easy Way Or The Hard Way’: Tom Cotton Warns Dems About Delaying Confirming Trump Nominees

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) warned Senate Democrats on Tuesday night that Senate Republicans will confirm President Donald Trump’s nominees to their chosen roles, with or without their help.

Cotton made the remarks during a speech on the Senate floor after Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) blocked a vote to confirm former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to become the next director of the CIA.

“I don’t really understand the objection to Mr. Ratcliffe,” Cotton said. “He was confirmed by the Senate to be the director of National Intelligence. He was fully vetted through the bipartisan process on the Senate Intelligence Committee. We voted him out yesterday, on a 14 to 3 vote. Senator Schumer stood here yesterday and talked about how we’re going to cooperate on highly qualified capable nominees with integrity, which John Ratcliffe is.”

Cotton noted that the intentional delay meant that on Tuesday, only Secretary of State Marco Rubio was confirmed to his role, and there would be no more votes on Wednesday.

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“I hope nobody’s making any plans for the weekend or the evenings cause we’re going to get these nominees confirmed,” Cotton said. “Starting with Mr. Ratcliffe and then moving on to Mr. Hegseth and moving on to [Mrs.] Noem. The easy way or the hard way. We tried to cooperate with the Democrats. The cooperation has not been forthcoming, so I guess it’s going to be the hard way. Starting on Thursday.”

Cotton said that Democrats were “trying to drag out all of these nominations to play procedural games, as we’re about to with Pete Hegseth’s nomination, to try to deny President Trump his cabinet in a prompt and timely fashion, just like the Democrats did in 2017.”

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