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Hours of tense negotiations to strike a deal on President Donald Trump’s nominees blew up Saturday evening, and now lawmakers are headed dwelling.
Senate Republicans and Democrats had been fast to level the finger at each other for the deal’s demise, however it was in the end Trump who nuked the talks.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives at Glasgow Prestwick Airport on July 25, 2025 in Prestwick, Scotland (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
In a prolonged publish on his social media platform Reality Social, Trump accused Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of “demanding over One Billion {Dollars} with a purpose to approve a small variety of our extremely certified nominees.”
“This demand is egregious and unprecedented, and could be embarrassing to the Republican Occasion if it had been accepted. It’s political extortion, by another title,” Trump stated. “Inform Schumer, who’s below large political strain from inside his personal celebration, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL!”
“Don’t settle for the supply,” he continued. “Go dwelling and clarify to your constituents what unhealthy individuals the Democrats are, and what an amazing job the Republicans are doing, and have achieved, for our Nation. Have an amazing RECESS and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
DEMS DIG IN, TRUMP DEMANDS ALL: NOMINEE FIGHT BOILS OVER IN SENATE AS GOP LOOKS FOR A DEAL
U.S. Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks to talk at a information convention following the weekly Senate Democratic coverage luncheon on the U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
As an alternative of discovering a pathway to vote on as many as 60 of the president’s nominees, all of which moved by committee with bipartisan assist, lawmakers rapid-fire voted on seven earlier than leaving Washington till September.
However Schumer handled Trump’s transfer as a victory for Senate Democrats. He countered that it was the president who gave up on negotiations whereas he and Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., labored to discover a bipartisan resolution, “supplied the White Home and Senate Republicans met our calls for.”
“He took his ball, he went dwelling, leaving Democrats and Republicans alike questioning what the hell occurred,” Schumer stated, standing subsequent to a poster-sized model of the president’s publish.
“Trump’s all-caps Tweet stated all of it,” he continued. “In a match of rage, Trump threw within the towel, despatched Republicans dwelling, and was unable to do the essential work of negotiating.”
However previous to the president’s edict, either side of the aisle believed they had been on the verge of a breakthrough to each meet Trump’s want to see his nominees confirmed and go away Washington.
Thune stated that there have been “numerous presents” made between him and Schumer over the course of negotiations.
“There have been a number of completely different occasions the place I believe both or either side possibly thought there was a deal in the long run,” he stated.
Senate Democrats wished the White Home to unfreeze billions in Nationwide Institute of Well being and overseas assist funding, along with a future settlement that no extra clawback packages would come from the White Home.
In alternate, they might greenlight a number of of Trump’s non-controversial nominees.
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WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 1: (EDITOR’S NOTE: Various Crop) Senate Majority Chief John Thune (R-SD) pauses whereas talking to reporters off the Senate ground after the Senate passes President Donald Trump’s so-called “One, Large, Lovely Invoice,” Act on the U.S. Capitol Constructing on July 1, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs) (Getty Photographs/Andrwe Harnik)
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., accused Schumer of going “too far” by upping the worth tag on his calls for.
“We have had three completely different offers since final evening,” he stated. “And each time it has been, each time it is ‘I need extra,’” Mullin stated of Schumer’s calls for.
He stated that Republicans weren’t caught off guard by Trump’s name to halt talks, and famous that the White Home had been closely concerned in negotiations.
“You get to a realization that there was, it was by no means about making a deal,” he continued. “They wish to exit and say the President’s being unrealistic, and since he cannot reply to his base to make a deal like we have now in each different president in historical past.”
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Now, Republicans gained’t pursue recess appointments, however Mullin famous that shifting forward with a rule change to the affirmation course of when lawmakers return in September was going to occur in response.
“The asks advanced on either side fairly a bit over time,” Thune stated. “However in the long run, we by no means received to a spot the place we had either side comply with lock it in.”
Senate Democrats, then again, countered that their supply by no means modified, and that Republicans stored rising the variety of nominees they wished throughout the road, and tried to incorporate extra controversial, partisan picks.
Schumer would not reveal the main points of his calls for, however charged that any modifications to Senate guidelines could be a “big mistake,” and urged Trump to work with Senate Democrats shifting ahead, significantly as Congress hurtles towards yet one more deadline to fund the federal government in September.
“They need to cease listening to him,” Schumer stated. “In the event that they wish to do what’s good for the American individuals, they should not be in blind obeisance to Donald Trump.”
