Senate Republicans hit a temporary stumbling block in its latest effort to confirm dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees.
Democrats blocked Republicans from successfully taking an initial step toward confirming a package of more than 80 nominations because one of the picks doesn’t qualify to be included: Sara Bailey’s nomination to be the director of national drug control policy is a senior-level pick requiring individual consideration under the new rules Republicans themselves drafted earlier this year for multinominee confirmation votes.
Republicans are expected to refile the resolution after adding additional nominees to the package, bringing it to about 95 names, and vote on it next week. That will pave the way for another series of votes on confirming the nominees, which currently include 13 U.S. attorney designees and dozens of sub-Cabinet appointments.
