{"id":32061,"date":"2025-09-12T00:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32061"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:04:06","slug":"senate-gop-hurtles-toward-nuclear-option-after-deal-with-dems-falls-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32061","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP hurtles toward nuclear option after deal with Dems falls apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last-minute closed-door talks between Senate Republicans and Democrats failed to prevent a \u2018nuclear option\u2019 in the upper chamber, as frustrations on both sides killed a deal to move ahead with President Donald Trump\u2019s nominees. \u00a0
\nLawmakers were inching closer to a deal that would have allowed sub-Cabinet-level nominees to be voted on in bunches, but neither side could reach a final agreement.<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans argued that a majority of their counterparts agreed with the new proposal, but that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was still standing in the way.
\n\u2018I think the majority of Democrats are on board with it,\u2019 Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital. \u2018And Schumer is blocking it from actually having consent to come to the floor.\u2019
\nThe failed deal was a modified version of a proposal first unveiled by Senate Democrats in 2023, and would have allowed 15 nominees to be batched together en bloc and voted on while still requiring two hours of debate for the group.<\/p>\n

But when Lankford brought the proposal to the floor for consideration, Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, blocked it.
\nSchatz argued that Senate Republicans were trying to rush through the negotiating process ahead of their plan to leave Washington for the weekend.
\n\u2018What they\u2019re asking for is unanimity, and we don\u2019t have it,\u2019 he said. \u2018And so, if you\u2019re interested in enacting this on a bipartisan basis, the process for doing that \u2014 It is available to you. But again, it\u2019s more a matter of running out of patience than running out of time.\u2019<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., fired back \u2018how much time is enough?\u2019
\n\u2018Give me a break,\u2019 he said. \u2018Two years. Not long enough. How about eight months? Eight months of this.\u2019
\nWith the prospects of bipartisan deal to move nominees through Democrats\u2019 blockade, Senate Republicans are expected to continue down the path of the \u2018nuclear option.\u2019
\nThat means that their initial proposal, which would allow for an unlimited number of sub-cabinet level nominees to be voted on en bloc with 30 hours of debate tacked on, is expected to pass with a simple majority, and effectively change the confirmation process in the Senate.
\n\u2018We are achingly close to doing this like adults,\u2019 Schatz said.<\/p>\n

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