Biden Cabinet Confirmation Live Thread ***hearings, votes, etc.***

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I imagine most if not all of his cabinet picks will get confirmed

I could see Tanden run into issues from the right(democrats) and maybe Vilsack and Raimondo run into issues from the left( Sanders, Warren, Merkley maybe).

I also imagine Austin and McDonough being underwhelming picks but being confirmed none the less

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I could see Tanden run into issues from the right(democrats) and maybe Vilsack and Raimondo run into issues from the left( Sanders, Warren, Merkley maybe).

Tanden is infinitely more likely to run into issue with progressives than with moderates, given her prior conduct.

Tanden is probably one of the more progressive picks by Biden, otherwise he would go with some other underwhelming pick. I don't particularly see Sanders as the type of person to hold a grudge and I don't think most Democrats will want to sabotage an incoming democratic administration early on

Remember most senate democrats are not Berniebros or TYT listeners, the same way most senate republicans are not Alex Jones/Breitbart watchers and readers

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Harris will resign her Senate seat tomorrow and swear in Warnoff and Padilla on Wednesday.

Not Pence on the 19th? Anyways you forgot Ossoff as well

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I think the waiver for nominees should be repealed, its a pointless law

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538 hasn't done any writeups on Biden nominees like they did with Trump. Infact I haven't heard much in the news about Biden's nominees so far

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Who will have the most trouble getting confirmed? Tanden?

Tanden (and maybe also Raimondo) is probably going to have the most trouble.

I could see it being the case where Republicans are unilaterally opposed to Tanden and Manchin/Sinema/Tester potentially also being opposed to her. It might end up being a 50/50 split with Kamala needing to tiebreak. Kamala obviously wouldn't vote against Tanden's nomination.

I kinda want Bernie to sink her nomination as a revenge, but he's too nice and has far too much class to do that.

Sanders will likely have one of the most pro Biden voting records in the Senate so I doubt that

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Baring any major revelations, Biden will be the first President since Reagan to go undefeated in his first round of cabinet appointments.

Unless Hawley continues continues his stupid schtick(or Cruz or Paul for that matter), I would assume Buttigieg could get it for VA,maybe Raimondo? Whoever is in charge of the VA as well

Does the VP swear everyone in?

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Transwomen should be banned from participating in women's sports but yeah I think Cardona will likely get confirmed

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Tanden is probably a 50-50 at this point I would bet.

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Neera Tanden is not Bruce Reed.

Why do people use lesser of two evils argument to defend her, just defend her by saying she knows the job and alot of the criticisms are childish in nature.

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So I guess, the final vote for Haaland will be 52-53/47-48.

Why is she controversial ?

Because she’s a Native American ?!?

Cause she isnt very supportive of the oil and gas industry

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Interesting that Fudge got so many GOP votes given some of her past comments

She might have a bipartisan record in the house or having good relationships across the aisle despite her past comments

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When people say Asian, it's generally implied east Asian(Chines, Korean etc) not south Asian ever, so people should be more specific by what they mean "Asian".

In the UK I know it means South Asians but in the Americas it means east Asian

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https://mobile.twitter.com/NPR/status/1387197639360499714

Hopefully he can help somewhat with resolving the crisis at the border-probably Biden's biggest blunder so far.

It's a blunder in the sense that this is a problem that takes some to solve it