Democrats are barreling forward with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation after she emerged from two days of high-profile questioning largely unscathed.
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Each of the three, like Hawley, are viewed as potential 2024 White House contenders.
Hawley, who supported challenges to the 2020 election results in Congress, told CNN that he was taking Biden s Cabinet picks one at a time. If there is someone I think will be good to Missouri, that I can defend to my voters, somebody who I think is going to be good for the job, I ll vote for them, Hawley said last month.
Scott s office said in a statement that the Florida senator who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee and supported challenging Biden s win in Pennsylvania has spoken with all of the Cabinet picks before they received votes on the Senate floor.
“I haven’t yet decided whether there’s merit to getting involved,” he said.
“I spent a lot of time on this particularly when Sen. Schumer and I were the chairman and the ranking member on Rules and he was never willing to do any of these things that would eliminate the first 60-vote hurdle or anything like that,” Blunt added.
The effort to see if there’s a deal to be had on smaller changes to the Senate rules comes as Democrats don’t currently have the votes to nix the legislative filibuster. Democrats hold 50 seats, but Manchin and Sinema are both publicly opposed to ending the legislative filibuster. Several others are leery of taking such a step.
Romney, the only Republican senator to vote to convict Trump on an article of impeachment in February, accused Trump of inciting a mob of supporters to storm the Capitol while Congress was counting the vote of the Electoral College on Wednesday.
Rep. Garrett Graves (R-La.) on Friday called for Trump to step back from the duties of his office, though he said he did not support impeaching the president or invoking the 25th Amendment.
“He effectively needs to resign. And what I mean by that is, effectively, he will not be out there talking, speaking, wielding the full authority and power of the White House, maybe even technically finding a way to hand over the keys to [Vice President] Pence,” he said.