The Schumer Shutdown will not be stopping the affirmation of Trump nominees. Senate Republicans simply completed confirming greater than 100 of them.
This has obtained to be driving Democrats utterly loopy.
Not solely are they shedding the optics battle throughout this shutdown, they’re not stopping Trump’s agenda from shifting ahead.
FOX News stories:
Senate Republicans verify greater than 100 Trump nominees as authorities shutdown continues
Senate Republicans confirmed a staggering tranche of President Donald Trump’s nominees on Tuesday as the federal government shutdown continues.
Lawmakers voted alongside social gathering strains to substantiate the batch of 107 of Trump’s nominees, a transfer that whittled down the remaining pending nominees on the Senate’s calendar to double digits. It additionally got here because the higher chamber was deadlocked within the midst of a authorities shutdown, throughout which ground votes have largely been devoted to making an attempt to reopen the federal government.
The slate of confirmed nominees included lots of Trump’s prime allies and former candidates that he hand-picked to run in earlier elections.
A few of the most recognizable on the listing had been former Republican Senate candidate and ex-NFL star Herschel Walker, who was tapped because the U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas, and Sergio Gor, a prime advisor to Trump who he picked to be his U.S. Ambassador to India.
Different posts confirmed included a wave of senior administration officers, a number of prosecutors and the reappointment of Securities and Trade Fee Chair Paul Atkins to a seat on the fee till 2031.
See the brief clip beneath:
BREAKING: The US Senate simply confirmed 107 President TRUMP NOMINEES multi functional go, 51-47.
That is DESPITE Chuck Schumer’s shutdown. pic.twitter.com/gqRdoFC9PF
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 7, 2025
Axios is reporting that Trump has now surpassed Joe Biden in confirming nominees:
Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) hyped the Senate’s progress on confirming Trump nominees throughout a closed-door lunch on Tuesday.
Why it issues: Due to new guidelines by way of the “nuclear possibility,” the Senate confirmed one other massive batch of nominees Tuesday night — placing them forward of tallies on the identical level underneath the Biden and first Trump administrations.
By the numbers: Barrasso in contrast the nominee affirmation numbers of the previous few administrations, in a presentation slide obtained by Axios.
The full variety of Trump 2.0 confirmations is now at 298 after Tuesday’s votes.
That’s greater than the 201 nominees confirmed at this level underneath former President Biden, and the 183 confirmations at this level in Trump’s first time period.
Extra confirmed nominees for Trump means extra of his agenda is getting finished.
