If she wins in November, Vice President Kamala Harris may face a hostile, Republican-controlled Senate in no mood to confirm the senior Cabinet officials she’ll need to run her administration.
Anticipating that scenario, Harris’ team is exploring whether to keep in place some of the Biden administration officials who’ve already been confirmed by the Senate and wouldn’t need to face the gauntlet again, four people familiar with her transition planning said.
Her aides are also looking at the option of initially retaining some current officials so that she’d have more time to make staffing decisions. With only a few months to build a campaign after abruptly replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, Harris has had little time to focus on the makeup of a new administration, the people familiar with the planning said.
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Whatever happens, I hope she keeps Lina Khan for FTC, that’s the appointment I care the most about.
“Regulator angers capital for doing their job” is one of my favorite headlines.
That’s the canary in the coal mine with what she’ll do with her administration.
Fewer Garlands, more Khans.
Fucking brace yourself for all the “will you prosecute Donald Trump as attorney general?”s
Just lie and then do it anyway. It worked to corrupt SCOTUS, it should work here.
Sorry, the best I can do is giving Garland a lifetime appointment as AG (* while Democrats control the White House). Think of how much of an epic clapback that would be since they blocked him from a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. They’ll be so upset when we continue to empower the guy specifically chosen for being extremely inoffensive to Republicans!
Khan is a good one, I’m personally invested in hoping that Jennifer Abruzzo stays in the NLRB
I love how if Republicans win they get to shove through every fever
dreamnightmare thing they want, but if Democrats win they can still have at least 2 years of absofuckinglutely nothing…Yay… :(
Yet another reason to increase the size of the House to 1000 members.
I think this one is the Senate? The House should be uncapped though.
Th OP article is the Senate, you’re right. The House is the easier fix, though.
On top of that, the House feels like it really ought to be fixed. The number of representatives has been fixed for almost 100 years, yet the country’s population has more than tripled.
I don’t think legislators of the time expected the population to get so big.
To be fair, an uncapped house has been made much more viable with technology that we developed over the last hundred years. Modern sound systems, architecture, and computers are all wonderful.
increase the size of the house to 100 million members
“ITS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER!”
zero urgency once elected
It’s not so much that it’s treated as “zero urgency” from Democrats, but rather Democrats don’t embrace a
king“unitary executive” theory that Republicans do. So when Trump wins the Republicans accept that he can push through whatever he (read: the heritage foundation) wants, it’s a big part of project 2025.If Democrats win they play by the system that exists, which is: we want something, Republicans say “go fucking die you communist piece of shit” and nothing happens because we don’t have a majority. If we end up with a 50/50 split then Joe Manchild and Self-centered Scinema say “go fucking die you communist piece of shit” and nothing happens because we don’t have a supermajority and they refuse to help kill the filibuster because they’re paid to be Republicans in the Democratic party. This is why the only thing we’ve accomplished through Congress in the last like 20 fucking years is a goddamn Republican healthcare system (Obamacare is Romneycare) because we had enough of a majority for something like 3 months…
Fun fact: since all appointees serve at the the pleasure of the President, all Secretaries and under Secretaries write a letter of resignation dated on the day the new President is sworn in. It’s up to the new President if they’re accepted or not.
It’s common to do this even when a President wins reelection.
But, then you know if it will be rejected or not. Most often it will be rejected.
That seems like a failing strategy, cabinet members are likely already looking for their next job.
This is if dems lose the senate control. New cabinet members have to be approved by the senate
So by keeping old cabinet members, you avoid having to go through the senate again and being blocked by republicans
Cabinet members are looking before the election though. They are out of a job if trump wins. They are out of a job if Harris wins + the Senate. They may not be out of a job if Harris wins and the Senate goes Republican. That’s not good odds to stick around for.
There is quite a bit of time between election and inauguration. Election is early November, inauguration is in early January
Even if dems win the senate it doesn’t mean they’ll necessarily replace 100% of everyone either. Just opens the options to replace some people. I’m sure the cabinet members would be informed of how likely they are to keep their job
They also aren’t getting regular jobs, there can be narrow windows to join or take months to find something. If you know in 6 months it’s likely you won’t have a job it’s time to start hunting for a new one. It’s likely at least one cabinet member leaves before the election.
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