New Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said there isn’t “clarity” just yet if all of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees will have the full support of Republican senators.
Thune predicted that “a lot of them will get through, and we’ll see about all of them.”
Thune, who took over as Republican leader in the upper chamber Friday as the 119th Congress was sworn in, made the comments to CBS News for an interview that will air Sunday. Thune was asked if he knew of Republican senators who might not vote to confirm Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and/or Kash Patel for FBI director.
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