Senator Markwayne Mullin was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to talk about President Trump’s nominees. He explained that the Democrats had no cooperation to confirm nominees and instead took advantage of the situation to try and waste more taxpayer money to get the votes.
“President Trump tweeted that Chuck Schumer was trying to extort his Republican colleagues, extortion on America. Can you tell us what happened as you tried to get across the finish line President Trump’s nominees?” Bartiromo asked.
“We have 61 nominees that have been voted out of the committee to report to the floor that’s got bipartisan support,” Mullin said.
“President Trump is the first President in history not to be able to have one single nominee go through by UC, that’s unanimous consent or by a voice vote,” Mullin said.
Senator Mullin explained that Chuck Schumer was exploiting the situation with the nominees to benefit his projects. He continually raised the cost which finally resulted in President Trump rejecting the offer since he wanted to protect the American taxpayer.
“We started at 800 million dollars for pet projects for Schumer and then they kept raising the number to 1.3 billion and a lot of this had a lot to do with money going to Gaza and keep in mind that Hamas has not even released the hostages,” Mullin continued.
“Then they kept dropping the number of nominees to the point where President Trump late last night just said, go pound sand,” Mullin said.
Senator Mullin also said that Schumer is trying to please the Democrat base because he is afraid that AOC will beat him in the next race for Senate.
“He can’t figure out how to sell this because he is running scared of AOC running against him, who can probably beat him in a Senate race in New York,” Mullin continued.
“This is a duly elected President, and his agenda was elected by the American people,” Bartiromo said.
Bartiromo asked Senator Mullin about having to pay for the confirmation of nominees and how that did not make sense.
“You have to pay to get President Trump’s nominees across and confirmed? I don’t get that. What do you mean the price kept going up?” Bartiromo asked.
“They wanted something in return and that is negotiating, right? You negotiate a little bit, but they kept changing their price because they never wanted a deal,” Mullin explained.
“When we get back, we’re gonna have to implement those rules change,” Mullin said.
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