By Asher Notheis
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) argued that Senate Republicans recognize how President-elect Donald Trump has “earned the right” to select who he wants in his Cabinet ahead of the Senate’s confirmation vote.
Ahead of taking office in January, Trump has been busy nominating people for his Cabinet, which include Pam Bondi as attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as secretary of state. In assessing whether or not Trump’s nominees can get confirmed, Johnson assured that his fellow Republicans recognize “the overwhelming victory” Trump experienced with his election, giving the president-elect “a mandate.”
“He has earned the right to be able to select people that will help him govern and carry out his agenda, and the agenda is primarily, from my standpoint, one that’s going to focus on the working men and women of this country, that build America, that we’re going to have to rely on to repair the damage done by four years of destructive Democrat governance, and literally make America Great again,” Johnson said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.
Johnson also detailed what type of work Trump’s nominees will conduct if confirmed, specifically expressing enthusiasm for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy co-leading the Department of Government Efficiency, adding that they do not need a confirmation vote since they are outside of government. Some of the jobs the incoming Trump administration will have to achieve, Johnson assessed, include garnering public support for radical change by exposing the corruption within the government.
When asked where he believed the most corruption could be found in the U.S. government, Johnson listed several examples like the FBI, the Department of Justice, and even in health agencies. Johnson admitted he was a supporter of “Big Pharma” before he found out how much it censored “the truth” by calling it “misinformation,” and that this “opened up my eyes.”
Ahead of Trump returning to the White House, the Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher suggested that Kennedy could be the nominee who faces the most turbulence in getting confirmed for his spot. Some of the challenges that Kennedy faces include winning over senators who have “nothing to lose” as well as those who have “stuff to prove,” she assessed.
Rubio boasts the highest approval among Trump’s Cabinet picks, with 45% of those in approval against 34% disapproval. Kennedy and Musk, along with Mike Huckabee, Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel, were considered the next most favored.
