Source: The American Conservative
by W James Antle III
“Whatever you think of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, he has learned one thing from his first term: few Beltway truisms are truer than personnel is policy. Trump wants to make a sharp break with the status quo. … This is the no-guardrails Trump team that Vice President Kamala Harris warned you about. … The Senate is part of a separate branch of government and has its own constitutional prerogatives. This includes the advise and consent powers, which gives senators a say in the makeup of the Trump administration and the federal judiciary. Just because they have the power to do so, however, doesn’t mean it would necessarily be a good idea for the Republican Senate majority to eagerly veto Trump’s choices.” (11/20/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-faces-senate-test-in-second-term/