Confirmation Update 2-22-25

Confirmation Hearings and Votes for Appointees will continue through February 2025. 

Marco Rubio – State Department has taken over USAID.

Howard Lutnick – Commerce is expected to take over the US Postal Service.

The US Senate has confirmed 17 of 25 Appointees as of 2-25-25:

Marco Rubio – State Dept,

John Ratcliffe – CIA,

Kristi Noem - Homeland Security,

Pete Hegseth – DOD,

Scott Bessent -Treasury,

Sean Duffy - Transportation

Doug Burgum – Interior,

Lee Zeldin – EPA,

Pam Bondi-Attorney General-DOJ, 

Doug Collins – Veterans

Chris Wright – Energy, 

RF Kennedy Jr – HHS

HHS, Tulsi Gabbard – DNI

Brook Rollins – Agriculture

Howard Lutnick – Commerce

Scott Turner – Housing,

Kash Patel, FBI

 

Confirmation Vote Pending:

Elise Stefanik, UN, (current House Member NY)

Russell Vought OMB,

Kelly Loeffler – SBA

Jamieson Greer – Trade

Linda McMahon – Education

Lori Chavez-DeRemer - Labor

Branden Carr – FCC

Billy Long IRS

 

Confirmation not required

Susie Wilds – Chief of Staff

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/trump-cabinet-confirmed-members-confirmation-votes

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/trump-cabinet-confirmations

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/2025/01/27/schedule-for-tuesday-january-28-2025

Comments

Democrats are “slow rolling” the confirmation process. They insist on individual meetings, multiple “hit-job” hearings, cloture votes that require 60 votes to proceed to confirmation votes and finally, confirmation votes. Disruptive Protests are being scheduled by Liberal Democrat funded NGOs in response to each action being taken by the Trump Administration. The funding for these protests are likely coming from Soros and other Marxists and are money-laundered via multiple NGO Non-Profit groups. In 2020, the same groups hired Antifa to burn down cities.

Democrats are fighting ICE. Sanctuary States are resisting by having Democrat Federal Judges issue opinions. All of this is aimed at slowing the Trump Deportation Plan for Criminal Illegals and those with Deportation Orders.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader