Senate heads dwelling with no deal to hurry confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to ‘go to hell’ : NPR

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Mariam Zuhaib/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate left Washington Saturday evening for its monthlong August recess and not using a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump's nominees, calling it quits after days of contentious bipartisan negotiations and Trump posting on social media that Senate Democratic Chief Chuck Schumer can "GO TO HELL!"

With no deal in hand, Republicans say they might attempt to change Senate guidelines once they return in September to hurry up the tempo of confirmations. Trump has been pressuring senators to maneuver rapidly as Democrats blocked extra nominees than normal this 12 months, denying any quick unanimous consent votes and forcing roll calls on every one, a prolonged course of that may take a number of days per nominee.

"I believe they're desperately in want of change," Senate Majority Chief John Thune mentioned of Senate guidelines Saturday after negotiations with Schumer and Trump broke down. "I believe that the final six months have demonstrated that this course of, nominations is damaged. And so I count on there might be some good strong conversations about that."

Schumer mentioned a guidelines change can be a "large mistake," particularly as Senate Republicans will want Democratic votes to go spending payments and different laws shifting ahead.

"Donald Trump tried to bully us, go round us, threaten us, name us names, however he acquired nothing," Schumer mentioned.

The most recent standoff comes as Democrats and Republicans have progressively escalated their obstruction of the opposite occasion's government department and judicial nominees during the last 20 years, and as Senate leaders have incrementally modified Senate guidelines to hurry up confirmations — and make them much less bipartisan.

In 2013, Democrats modified Senate guidelines for decrease court docket judicial nominees to take away the 60-vote threshold for confirmations as Republicans blocked President Barack Obama's judicial picks. In 2017, Republicans did the identical for Supreme Courtroom nominees as Democrats tried to dam Trump's nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Trump has been pressuring Senate Republicans for weeks to cancel the August recess and grind by dozens of his nominations as Democrats have slowed the method. However Republicans hoped to make a take care of Democrats as a substitute, and got here shut a number of occasions over the previous few days as the 2 events and the White Home negotiated over shifting a big tranche of nominees in alternate for reversing among the Trump administration's spending cuts on overseas assist, amongst different points.

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Mariam Zuhaib/AP The Senate held a uncommon weekend session on Saturday as Republicans held votes on nominee after nominee and because the two events tried to work out the ultimate particulars of a deal. Nevertheless it was clear that there can be no settlement when Trump attacked Schumer on social media Saturday night and instructed Republicans to pack it up and go dwelling.

"Inform Schumer, who's below super political strain from inside his personal occasion, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL!" Trump posted on Fact Social. "Don't settle for the supply, go dwelling and clarify to your constituents what dangerous folks the Democrats are, and what an awesome job the Republicans are doing, and have accomplished, for our Nation."

Thune mentioned afterward that there have been "a number of totally different occasions" when the 2 sides thought they'd a deal, however in the long run "we did not shut it out."

It is the primary time in latest historical past that the minority occasion hasn't allowed at the very least some fast confirmations. Thune has already saved the Senate in session for extra days, and with longer hours, this 12 months to attempt to affirm as a lot of Trump's nominees as doable.

However Democrats had little need to provide in with out the spending minimize reversals or another incentive, regardless that they too had been wanting to skip city after a number of lengthy months of labor and bitter partisan fights over laws.