People are afraid Gaetz will investigate the investigators. That is why he is controversial and probably why Trump chose him, since the Dept.. of Justice has been weaponized against him for 8 years or more.
I hope Trump stands by his nominees, using recess appointments if necessary. With the Senate (theoretically) in the hands of the enemy, with Thune in charge, he may need to use recess appointments.
We got over one hurdle with Trump winning, now lets hope they can jump this one too. I don't discuss politics much, but I do hope and pray nothing else happens to Trump or any of them for that matter.
I have noticed a lot of MSM sensationalism around the possibility of recess appointments. They are clutching their pearls like it has never been done before... more bullshit from the Orange Man Bad brigade. "Recess appointments have been used by various presidents in the last couple of decades. And both Democrat and Republican administrations have used the tool to make appointments. According to the Congressional Research Service, George W. Bush made 171 such appointments, while Bill Clinton made 139 and Barack Obama made at least 32 recess appointments. But the process was uprooted by the Supreme Court in 2014, when justices ruled against former President Obama, calling multiple of his recess appointments unconstitutional and ruling recess appointments could only be made during a recess lasting 10 days or longer." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news.../15/what-is-a-recess-appointment/76337337007/
There is speculation that this specific nomination was done to test the process and to flesh out the enemies in the Senate, to the extent they aren't already known.
He'll be the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which falls under Health & Human Services (Kennedy's agency.) The position oversees programs including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance Marketplaces. Considering that he embraced Obamacare, that's a weird cost-cutting choice. And I'm not sure where RFK Jr. stands on those programs, either. Trump has long said Medicaid is in his sights for cost-cutting.
Marjorie Taylor-Green weighs in on the Gaetz controversy, and for the first time I agree with something she said. "For my Republican colleagues in the House and Senate, If we are going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it ALL out there for the American people to see. Yes.. all the ethics reports and claims including the one I filed, all your sexual harassment and assault claims that were secretly settled paying off victims with tax payer money, the entire Jeffrey Epstein files, tapes, recordings, witness interviews. But not just those, there's more, Epstein wasn't/isn't the only asset. If we're going to dance, let's all dance in the sunlight. I'll make sure we do," the lawmaker said in a post on X.
Linda McMahon has been nominated as Trump's Education Secretary. Mrs. McMahon is co-chair of his transition team. She previously ran to represent Connecticut in the Senate in 2010 and 2012, and is also the co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), alongside her husband Vince McMahon.
Trump has nominated Matthew Whitaker as US Ambassador to NATO (official title is United States permanent representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.) This position resides within the State Department. Whitaker had been the Acting Attorney General under Trump when Jeff Session stepped down. In August 2019, he became a managing director at Axiom Strategies (one of the largest Republican consulting firms in the U.S.) and Clout Public Affairs.
It looks like Matt Gaetz has dropped out of his nomination for Attorney General. He said that it has been causing too much division in the party and might hold up some of Trump’s other appointments. Maybe what they will do is go ahead with some of the less controversial appointments, and then deal with the AG nomination later once the easy ones are taken care of. Trump could still appoint Maetz again later, or pick someone else. In the meantime, he already resigned his seat in congress, so he will have to decide what to do about that one. Maybe he can apply for Marco Rubin’s seat if nothing else works. It looks like Ken Paxton is maybe the next possible candidate, at least from the people’s viewpoint.