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Led by ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Senate Democrats on the Finance Committee refused to allow votes for two of popular vote loser Donald Trump's top nominees on Tuesday morning.
Senators were set to vote on Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and Steve Mnuchin to lead the Treasury Department.
By not showing up for the votes, Democrats denied Republicans the quorum they needed to move forward with confirmation. At least one Democrat needs to be present for the vote to happen.
Senate Republicans were outraged, throwing their plans to quickly confirm Trump’s nominees into disarray.
Democrats pointed out that Mnuchin lied to them, to the whole committee. They also cited the latest reporting from the Wall Street Journal on Price's stock trades, demanding more information.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Republican chairman of the committee, had another bout of amnesia, declaring "I don’t remember us treating their nominees this way." Hatch is either a pathological liar or completely senile, since he's been front and center for the last eight years, topped off with a Republican boycott of President's Obama Supreme Court nominee.