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by Boris Epshteyn, Chief Political Commentator
Did you know that some people nominated to serve as ambassadors by President Trump have been waiting for over two years to be confirmed by the Senate?
That’s right. As exemplified by Doug Manchester who’s waited almost 800 days to take his post as Ambassador to the Bahamas, Senate Democrats have used arcane rules to delay the confirmation of our representatives to other countries for no real reason.
For instance, David Fischer—a man nominated to be ambassador to Morocco—has waited close to six hundred days to be confirmed. Morocco has ties to the Arab world and to Israel that are critical to securing Middle East peace.
Don’t get me wrong, the Senate’s job is to advise and consent on the president’s nominees and they should be allowed to weigh in. But these are non-controversial, qualified individuals we are talking about who are waiting an absurd amount of time to begin serving our country.
Here’s the bottom line: These delays are a perversion of Senate rules, and are, yet, another example of Democrats hypocritically allowing their personal hatred of our president to take precedence over the good of our country.
The Senate should not take recesses and should work until the backlog of ambassadors is totally cleared.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Boris Epshteyn formerly served as a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign and served in the White House as Special Assistant to The President and Assistant Communications Director for Surrogate Operations.
