At your discretion Senate is to approve – or reject – the candidates designated by the president new US administration. However, Trump informed senators aspiring to become president of the upper house of Congress that the Senate should give up this right and allow him to fill positions in his cabinet without consultation, the Washington daily reported.
USA. Donald Trump on positions in the new administration
“Any Republican senator seeking the highly coveted LEADERSHIP position in… United States Senate must agree,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website. He added that he wanted positions in the administration to be filled “IMMEDIATELY!” (original spelling – ed.).
“They will take place this week election of a new leader of the Republican majority in the Senate,” the daily recalled.
Experts cited by “WP” estimate that this is the solution would not be inconsistent with the US Constitutionespecially since there is a practice (recess appointments) of appointments indicated by the president candidates for office during congressional breaks or parliamentary holidays. However – as constitutionalists emphasize – it would be limiting the powers of the Senate.
Donald Trump. Does he want to send a signal to Senate Republicans?
What's particularly interesting is that Trump decided skip Senate hearings and decisions in the situation in which he has it a comfortable Republican majority in the upper house of Congress – noted “WP”.
Trump's decision may mean that the president-elect wants to send a signal to Republican senators and congressmen that “for the next four years they will have little or no contribution (to governing the country),” according to some experts interviewed by the daily.
Other “WP” interlocutors assume that the future president already knows that he will want to appoint to important offices people that even the Republican-controlled Senate wouldn't approve.
“Washington Post” about changes in the American government. “Extremely rare”
Many Republican senators have already said they have no objections to it Trump stripped the chamber of its constitutional powerswhich – as Josh Chafetz, a law professor at Georgetown University, said – is extremely rare.
Congressmen usually they do not tolerate attempts to take away their power guaranteed under the constitution, even by presidents from their own party, Chafetz emphasized.
“WP” believes that Trump can benefit from this diminishing the power of the Senatein order to appoint judges, including even Supreme Court judges, in addition to members of the administration.