Senate Majority Leader Thune Sick of Dem Delays

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) stated Thursday that he is getting critically drained of Democrats delaying and obstructing presidential appointments—a sentiment the president himself echoed in a social media post earlier in July. 

“This is the first president in history who has never had, at this point in his presidency, a civilian nominee approved either by unanimous consent or voice vote in the Senate,” Thune stated Thursday during an interview on the “Brian Kilmeade Show” on Fox News Radio.

The stalled nominations embrace undersecretaries for main federal departments such as Education, Labor and Agriculture, along with judges and ambassadors.

Thune accused Senate Democrats of “delaying, obstructing, [and] blocking” the affirmation course of at almost every step, main to important slowdowns.

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🧵 BREAKING: Senate Democrats are attempting to sabotage Trump’s presidency—again.

Not one civilian nominee has been permitted by voice vote or unanimous consent. Not one.

John Thune just vowed to “grind them down.” Here’s what’s taking place—and what’s next. ⬇️

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— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) July 25, 2025

On July 19, Trump had inspired Thune to cancel the upcoming Senate recess unless large progress had been made:

Here is what he stated in the post if you’re unable to see it:

Hopefully the very gifted John Thune, contemporary off our many victories over the previous two weeks and, certainly, 6 months, will cancel August recess (and long weekends!), in order to get my unbelievable nominees confirmed. We need them badly!!! DJT

READ MORE: Trump Says Thune Should Keep Senators at Work, Citing Urgent Business

Thune, however, stated on the podcast that he supposed to get the Democrats transferring even if he had to “grind them down”:

“As we head into the August break we need to get a whole bunch more confirmed, and we intend to do that,” he said, adding that his strategy is to “wear them down,” referring to his Democratic colleagues.

“Because of the way the Democrats are playing in their Trump Derangement Syndrome, they’re putting up an unprecedented level of obstruction,” he added. “I think the only way to beat that is to just grind them down.”

6/ Thune just issued a warning: the grind is coming.

“We’re going to wear them down,” stated Senate GOP Leader John Thune.

He’s threatening to cancel the August recess—at Trump’s urging—to power confirmations through.

It wants to occur.https://t.co/KJqCjCMX0P

— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) July 25, 2025

“I totally appreciate the president’s frustration with what’s happening on the nominee front,” he instructed Kilmeade. “There’s nothing about this that is easy, but it should be a lot easier than it is.”

As if to show just how unserious they’re, Democrats had such damage emotions over Trump’s nomination of Emile Bove for a judgeship on the third Circuit Court of Appeals that they stormed out of a committee assembly Tuesday in a snit when they didn’t get their method in a procedural matter.

IMPRESSIVE STUFF: Dems Pitch Fit, Walk Out of Judiciary Committee Meeting Over Emil Bove Judicial Nomination

At this level, the unpopular Democrats have little to offer different than juvenile protests, walkouts, procedural video games and mood tantrums. They will possible lose a lot of these battles, but they’ll create lots of junior high-level theater along the best way.

Editor’s Note: President Trump is main America into the “Golden Age” as Democrats attempt desperately to stop it.  

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