US Senate approves 48 Trump nominees in a single vote

Mass support of nominees follows rules alteration that marque it easier to o.k. lower-level Trump nominations.

The United States Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees to authorities positions, pursuing a caller regularisation alteration that allows the enclosure to o.k. lower-level appointments successful batches alternatively than individually.

Key governmental appointments connected Thursday included Kimberly Guilfoyle, a erstwhile FOX News big and ex-fiancee of Donald Trump Jr, arsenic US Ambassador to Greece.

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Callista Gingrich, the woman of blimpish governmental pundit Newt Gingrich, was besides appointed ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. She antecedently served arsenic US Ambassador to the Holy See during Trump’s archetypal administration.

The Republican-controlled Senate besides approved dozens of nominations to the departments of defence, energy, labour, and the interior, arsenic good arsenic the US ambassadors to Argentina and Sweden.

The wide ballot has been portrayed successful the US media arsenic a important triumph for the Trump administration, which has struggled to get support for much than 100 appointees owed to ongoing absorption from Democrats.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the ballot was imaginable acknowledgment to a alteration successful rules past week to “overcome Democrats’ historical obstruction” of the information process.

Under the caller rules, the Senate tin present o.k. lower-level nominations with a elemental majority, according to The Associated Press quality agency.

Previous rules stay successful spot for higher-level posts, including judicial and cabinet-level nominations.

Last week @SenateGOP took steps to flooded Democrats’ historical obstruction and restored the Senate’s longstanding signifier of confirming nominees successful batches.

Later contiguous the Senate volition corroborate a slate of 48 nominees to get @POTUS' squad successful spot to enact his agenda. pic.twitter.com/IcRmQLTz3K

— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) September 18, 2025

Approving adjacent non-controversial civilian nominations has go an progressively contentious process for presidents successful caller years, according to Thune, wherever they were erstwhile approved by near-unanimous consent oregon “voice vote”, which was a elemental measurement of vocal approval.

“[President Trump is] the archetypal president connected grounds not to person a azygous civilian nominee confirmed by unanimous consent oregon dependable vote,” Thune told the Senate connected Thursday, accusing Democrats of “delay for delay’s sake”.

The combat implicit Trump’s nominations escalated successful August during a Senate recess, erstwhile the president told Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to “GO TO HELL” successful a station connected Truth Social. Schumer said astatine the clip that  Democrats opposed Trump’s nominations to authorities posts due to the fact that they were “historically bad”.

The determination to artifact nominations has besides been portrayed by the US media arsenic 1 of the fewer tools astatine the Democrats’ disposal owed to holding a number successful some legislative houses.