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Last Week
Senate Republican leaders have reportedly landed on a “solution” to the huge backlog of Trump Administration nominees they allowed to pile up this summer. Their plan, unfortunately, is to use the so-called “nuclear option” to change Senate rules to allow themselves to confirm many nominations at once, instead of one at a time. They say this step is necessary because Democrats are blocking the nominees.
Except — the Democrats can’t really block nominees anymore. To confirm all these noms, all Republicans had to do was work five days a week. Senate Republican Leader John Thune (R-SD) made the situation worse last month. He could have scheduled dozens of confirmation votes back at the beginning of August, right before recess. Forced to choose between fake resistance and their real vacation, Democrats would have folded.
But Thune and his team could not be bothered. They would rather change Senate rules than work a whole week. This might not seem like a bad thing. HOWEVER, if they go through with this lazy rule change instead of simply doing their job, the next Democrat majority will confirm woke crackpots by the dozen.
Conservatives have been waiting for months to hear Senate leaders’ plan to break the nominations backlog. Now we know their strategy. It’s not the nuclear option, it’s the Laziness Option. This is why, even in Donald Trump’s Washington, SCF keeps fighting for more conservatives in the U.S. Senate.
Conservative Spotlight
TED CRUZ — Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a new bill to help make Washington, D.C., safe again. The “CLEAN DC Act” would repeal dangerous restrictions put on D.C. police during the height of the Biden crime wave. President Trump’s National Guard deployment is showing that serious policing works. D.C. crime has fallen 50% in three weeks! Letting cops do their jobs again will continue that momentum — and show every other blue city how conservative policy can succeed where their soft-on-crime nonsense has failed.
ERIC SCHMITT — In case you missed it, conservative Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) gave the speech of the year (so far!) by a U.S. Senator. “What is an American?” — Schmitt’s address about what the Right is fighting for and how we win — was a home run from start to finish. Watch the whole thing here [ [link removed] ].
ROGER MARSHALL — At last week’s big Senate hearing featuring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Democrats used their time to yell at the Health and Human Services Secretary. Conservative Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), on the other hand, asked real questions — and got real answers. He clarified details about Kennedy’s vaccine transparency reforms and reminded his colleagues that health officials work for parents, not the other way around. The real debate, Kennedy and Marshall agreed, is not about pro-vax or anti-vax. It’s about science, health, and informed decisions. Watch Marshall’s excellent questioning here [ [link removed] ].
This Week
The Senate has one vote scheduled so far for this week: to confirm the nomination of Edward Artau to be a federal District Judge in Florida. Other nominations will probably receive votes this week, too — especially if Republicans go ahead with their plan to nuke the Senate’s nominations rules.
The Senate is also expected to continue debating the National Defense Authorization Act, which will set policy and funding priorities next year at the now-renamed Department of War.

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