{"id":601985,"date":"2023-12-22T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/menendez-blocks-two-senate-confirmations-before-holiday-recess\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T04:17:16","slug":"menendez-blocks-two-senate-confirmations-before-holiday-recess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/menendez-blocks-two-senate-confirmations-before-holiday-recess\/","title":{"rendered":"#Menendez blocks two Senate confirmations before holiday recess\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/menendezrobert_112923gn01_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) blocked the confirmation of two Senate nominees on Wednesday, protesting a \u201clack of responsiveness\u201d from the Biden administration amid talks with Republicans over Ukraine aid and border security funding, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/21\/menendez-blocks-ag-nominees-00132948\">according<\/a> to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez blocked Basil Gooden\u2019s nomination for the Department of Agriculture\u2019s under-secretary of rural development and the renomination of Summer Mersinger for a commissioner role as a part of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Last week, Menendez alleged that the Biden administration was ignoring immigrant communities and caving to Republicans when it comes to border negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is truly shameful that President Biden and his administration are considering selling out migrants and asylum-seekers in order to placate extreme Republicans who are jeopardizing our national security and that of our allies just to score a political point,\u201d said Menendez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of honoring requests to meet with House and Senate members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to strategize on a reasonable and effective path forward to address our challenges at the border, the White House ignored us \u2014 a slap in the face for the Latino and immigrant communities that we represent,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate adjourned Wednesday without a deal on funding for Ukraine or border security, ending a historically unproductive legislative session. Its members are not scheduled to come back until early January.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) attributed the absence of achievements to the influence of former President Trump on the Republican-majority House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder a Republican House majority this year, we saw a year marked by chaos, extremism and paralysis. There\u2019s no question that divided government and MAGA extremism made legislating in 2023 very difficult,\u201d Schumer said in floor remarks.<\/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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) blocked the confirmation of two Senate nominees on Wednesday, protesting a \u201clack of responsiveness\u201d from the Biden administration amid talks with Republicans over Ukraine aid and border security funding, according to Politico. Menendez blocked Basil Gooden\u2019s nomination for the Department of Agriculture\u2019s under-secretary of rural development and the renomination of Summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/menendezrobert_112923gn01_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[137620,134343,71313,147862,134353,4941,133498,991,40445,147863,70289,134345],"class_list":["post-601985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bob-menendez","tag-campaign","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-confirmation-senate","tag-court-battles","tag-donald-trump","tag-in-the-know","tag-joe-biden","tag-media","tag-menendez","tag-senate","tag-state-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}