Despite enjoying many of the perks of a Democratic majority in the Senate, the Biden administration is struggling to get nominees over the finish line in a series of confirmation processes that have turned contentious.
President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration became the latest casualty of the polarized environment when he withdrew from consideration on Monday amid scrutiny of his record.Phillip Washington, the FAA nominee, had stumbled through a confirmation hearing earlier this month. Washington repeatedly conceded that he did not know the answers to questions about technical aspects of air safety during an exchange with Sen. Ted Budd , and he failed to answer questions from Sen.
Her social media posts became a liability during the Senate confirmation process, including a tweet she’d shared that labeled former President Donald Trump a “raggedy white supremacist president” and a post in which she claimed Fox News is “dangerous to democracy.”In January, Biden’s pick for a top human rights post at the State Department withdrew from consideration amid questions from Sen. Jim Risch about her attitude toward Israel given some of her past statements on social media.
Charnelle Bjelkengren, nominated by Biden to serve as a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Washington, imperiled her chances of confirmation in January when she failed to answer basic questions from Sen. John Kennedy about the articles of the Constitution during her hearing. Michael Delaney, the nominee for the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has faced pushback from some Democrats over his signature on a 2005 legal brief defending a New Hampshire law, which has since been repealed, requiring minors to notify their parents before obtaining an abortion.
“I’m holding the DOD nominations because the secretary of defense is trying to push through a massive expansion of taxpayer-subsidized abortions without going through this body, without going through Congress,” Tuberville, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on the Senate floor earlier this month.
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