Senate Republicans seem determined to give Donald Trump’s nominees an easy confirmation, no matter how terrible they are. But Democratic groups aren’t accepting it as a done deal, and they’re looking to give senators ammunition for a series of confirmation fights:
[American Bridge] has about 20 researchers in addition to outside help from former Democratic presidential nominee Clinton’s transition team and Senate Democratic leadership aides working on the project. Even if the nominees have a good shot at being confirmed, Brock said, he wants to expose and debate their vulnerabilities through this process.
“We’re going to leave no stone unturned,” said Brock, who has a cluster of affiliated groups funded by major Democratic donors. “Our goal is to keep Trump unpopular.”
The Center for American Progress Action Fund will also “relaunch their advocacy arm as an anti-Trump research, policy, and digital organizing outlet, focusing at the outset on cabinet selections,” Tarini Party reports, with former Harry Reid aide Adam Jentleson on board; he is “already in daily contact with Senate leadership as part of his work with Reid and will continue at CAP to organize extensive outreach with Democrats there.”
Democratic senators will have the material to fight Trump’s egregiously unqualified, extremist, and corrupt cabinet picks. There’s no excuse not to do it.