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Sen. Tom Cotton: GOP Senate Will Confirm All Trump’s Nominees

The new Republican majority Senate will confirm all President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) predicted Monday.

Cotton’s words hold a lot of water. He was elected in November to serve as Senate Republican Conference chair, the third-ranking post in leadership.

His bold pronouncement signals that the conference is ready to move past establishment media-generated controversy and get to work acting on Trump’s mandate by installing his picks to deliver his agenda.

“I expect our Republican Senate is going to confirm all of President Trump’s nominees,” Cotton tweeted Monday morning.

Cotton acknowledged recent history showing that if a president wants his nominee to get confirmed and sticks by him – as Trump has done with Pete Hegseth, his nominee to lead the Pentagon – that nominee will receive the support of his party’s senators.

“Of the 72 cabinet secretary nominees since the Clinton transition, only 2 nominees have ever received NO votes from the president-elect’s party,” Cotton said in a subsequent tweet. “No one should be surprised that the Republican Senate will confirm President Trump’s nominees.”

Hegseth continued meeting Republicans senators Monday, with other nominees, including Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, beginning to make the rounds as well.

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