Lucas, Trump’s nominees and rumored picks have promoted white nationalism,
attacked climate science, and used their power as Wall Street insiders
and corporate lobbyists to fleece working families. Now they want to run
the United States.
The U.S. Senate has confirmation power over most of Trump's cabinet.
Senators must use this power to block and resist Trump’s cabinet
of hate and greed.
Join Daily Kos and a large coalition in calling on the U.S. Senate to block
Trump's cabinet of hate and Wall Street greed. Click here to sign
the petition.
Trump's potential cabinet members include:
- Jeff Sessions, nominee for attorney general, enemy of civil rights and women's rights. Was deemed too racist to confirm to a federal judgeship by fellow Republicans in 1986. Would be responsible for enforcing the country’s civil rights laws.
- Steve Mnuchin, the nominee for treasury secretary, former Goldman Sachs executive who got rich at the expense of working Americans. He ran a bank called a "foreclosure machine" that kicked people out of their houses, using techniques so coldblooded a federal judge called them “harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive.”
- Scott Pruitt, nominee for Environmental Protection Agency administrator, climate science denier. As Oklahoma Attorney General, he has repeatedly sued the EPA to attack the Clean Power Plan and Clean Water Rule, even passing off as his own a letter criticizing the EPA written and delivered to him by a big oil company’s top lobbyist.
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The Senate will be narrowly divided 52-48 between Republicans and Democrats
in 2017 and many key Senate committees will be split 10-9 or 11-10.
If Democrats stick together it could only take one or two principled Republican
votes to block many of Trump’s nominees.
Donald Trump may have won the Electoral College, but members of the U.S.
Senate should not give any support to Trump appointees espousing racism,
xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, climate denial, and corporate greed.
Tell members of the U.S. Senate: Block and resist Trump's cabinet of
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Keep fighting,
Monique Teal, Daily Kos