{"id":585997,"date":"2023-08-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/senate-forces-biden-into-personnel-standstill-ahead-of-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T10:00:00","slug":"senate-forces-biden-into-personnel-standstill-ahead-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/senate-forces-biden-into-personnel-standstill-ahead-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#Senate forces Biden into personnel standstill ahead of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/sujulie_060723gn01_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s unprecedented lack of action on President Biden\u2019s nominees has left the administration at a personnel standstill, with a Cabinet official\u2019s confirmation process at a dead end and military leadership unable to move forward with promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Almost six months after the president nominated Julie Su to head the Department of Labor, the Senate has made little progress getting her across the finish line because moderate Democrats do not support\u00a0her. Meanwhile, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is holding up\u00a0hundreds of military advancements in protest of the Pentagon\u2019s abortion policy.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Senate went into August recess with no end in sight to Tuberville\u2019s hold and could go into the 2024 election without a confirmed Labor secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The former Labor secretary, Marty Walsh, is the first and only Cabinet official to leave the Biden administration. Reports swirled about Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wanting to leave her post after the 2022 midterm elections, but she shut down the rumors at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources close to the administration say that as the 2022 election <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roached, there was a point when Cabinet officials were told if they wanted to leave, they should leave at that time. Administrations typically want a solid team in place going into an election. If Yellen were to\u00a0have left, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was floated as her replacement,\u00a0but backfilling\u00a0that spot would\u00a0have been\u00a0the challenge, sources mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>At issue for the administration is the state of play in the Senate that has made even the prospect of moving high-profile nominations to be a troublesome process. Any nominee could face an uphill climb to win some support from within the Senate Republican ranks,\u00a0especially if the candidate in question is a controversial choice just as Su has turned out to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, with what Su is going through in the Senate, one source familiar with the administration questioned, \u201cWho would offer themselves for a nomination in an environment that they may get jammed up?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But exacerbating those problems is winning support from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), a trio of moderate members who hold the keys to any nominee getting across the finish line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Manchin is the only one of the three who has explicitly announced their opposition to Su, but\u00a0he\u00a0has also sided against multiple Biden nominees in recent months. Included in that is a host of judicial selections, Jared Bernstein\u2019s nomination to become Biden\u2019s top economic adviser and any of the administration\u2019s picks for the Environmental Protection Agency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only does the administration have a problem with Republicans, but they have problems with Democrats as well,\u201d said Jim Manley, a former top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). \u201cAnd in weeks and months ahead, they\u2019re going to have to figure out who to prioritize, who to put off and who to figure out who they can get to fill jobs in an acting capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShort term through the end of the fiscal year, the dance card is full. We\u2019ll see what opens up then, but given that Republicans are vowing to block every [Defense and State Department] nominee, if you throw a\u00a0Cabinet secretary on top of that, it\u2019s going to be tough to get anything done,\u201d Manley added.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Earlier this year, two Biden nominees who weren\u2019t getting enough support in the Senate withdrew their names in one month \u2014 Phillip Washington, the former pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, and Gigi Sohn, the former pick to serve as the top telecommunications regulator for the Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the administration\u2019s headaches is the continued hold on military promotions by Tuberville that shows no signs of letting up. The hold is set to enter its fifth month next week, with Democrats\u00a0\u2014 including Biden \u2014increasingly trying to use the former Auburn University football coach as a boogeyman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the fall, we may not have a chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,\u201d Biden recently warned, though, calling Tuberville\u2019s hold \u201coutrageous\u201d and \u201cnonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Biden\u00a0recently picked Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to become the next chairman and,\u00a0if confirmed by the full Senate, he would become only the second Black man to hold that role, after Colin Powell.\u00a0Current chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley\u2019s term expires at the start of October.<\/p>\n<p>He also picked Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be the next chief of naval operations. If confirmed, she\u00a0would\u00a0be the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the\u00a0outcry\u00a0over\u00a0the military holdup, the White House doesn\u2019t seem to be in a rush to get a full-time Labor secretary in place.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The administration hasn\u2019t changed\u00a0its\u00a0strategy to get Su confirmed and\u00a0has\u00a0denied reports of\u00a0pulling\u00a0her nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s support for acting Secretary Su is unwavering,\u201d a White House official said.<\/p>\n<p>The official said that when Walsh left his post, Su automatically became acting secretary,\u00a0adding she is not subject to the time limits of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, so she can serve\u00a0there\u00a0indefinitely.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>When UPS and the Teamsters struck a deal over workers\u2019 contracts to avoid a strike, the White House said Su\u00a0remained in close contact with both parties. When\u00a0asked in late July\u00a0if Su has legal authority to act as secretary in a full capacity, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House is \u201cconfident\u201d in her legal standing.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Senate GOP sources argued that if future nominees are in the mold of Su,\u00a0it\u00a0would be well within their right to oppose them. But\u00a0they are leaving the door open to supporting\u00a0other potential nominees\u00a0down the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSu is a unique candidate but in all of the wrong ways. The opposition is rooted in her lack of qualifications, not just in being a Biden nominee. \u2026 It would depend on who the nominee is,\u201d one Senate GOP aide said. \u201cThe closer it gets to the election and there\u2019s a potential vacancy, there\u2019s politics at play. For the administration, if it does get closer and they\u2019re trying to woo the base, maybe that forces them to swing further to the base.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Senate Republicans would reject them for the sole reason that they were nominated by Biden,\u201d the aide continued. \u201cIf you send flawed candidates to the Senate, they\u2019re likely to face opposition. But every nominee is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Senate Republican added that \u201cit depends\u201d on who the nominee is and noted that some members could back a \u201creasonable candidate without a milelong political rap sheet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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