JUST IN: Top Conservative Senators Vow To Support All Trump Cabinet Nominees
U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) have both vowed to support all of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees and called for confirmation hearings to be scheduled immediately.
“A majority of voters decided that the America First agenda championed by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance is a playbook for American greatness. As a part of that playbook, President Trump has already put together a strong, very strong list of qualified Cabinet members,” Tuberville, who was a highly successful college football coach before running for office, told his colleagues on the Senate floor Wednesday.
“At defense, he’s tapped Pete Hegseth, a veteran who served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is an Ivy League educated businessman background. That’s what we need in the Pentagon right now to restore order in our finances. At HHS, he’s assigned Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has single-handedly brought attention to the many public health crises facing Americans. He’s Harvard educated, has authored multiple books, and has a four-decade career in public health and environmental law,” he continued.
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Tuberville also praised U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the president-elect’s nominee for attorney general, describing him as a “warrior for the Constitution on the Judiciary Committee” who has “exposed the weaponization of the justice system of the DOJ.”
The senator went on to note that D.C. bureaucrats and establishment lawmakers are “losing their minds” over Trump’s picks before urging his Republican colleagues to support Trump’s nominees. “They’re finding out, as Barack Obama said, that elections have consequences,” Tuberville said.
Hawley said much of the same when speaking with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Wednesday night. The conservative senator pointed to the “slander and garbage” being spread in the media about Gaetz as a leading cause for concern among some of his Republican colleagues.
Gaetz was investigated by the Biden Department of Justice for two years over allegations of sex and corruption crimes, though they opted not to bring any charges after a thorough investigation. Democrats have refused to quit, however, pointing to a separate House Ethics Committee investigation that will not be released after Gaetz resigned from Congress last week.
“Let the guy speak. He deserves to be able to address this himself. He deserves to be able to lay out his vision and the president’s vision for the DOJ. And I look forward to that,” Hawley said.
“And listen, as I said to President Trump, I’m going to help in whatever way I can to get the president the cabinet that he wants and deserves.”
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