Republicans Holding Floor Vs Devos

Their last ditch effort is not expected to derail her confirmation vote around noon today but it kept alive what has become the fiercest opposition to a president trump cabinet appointee.

Republicans holding floor vs devos.

Patty murray of washington said monday. President donald trump nominated betsy devos to be the next secretary of education much to the dismay of democrats. Democrats are looking to tie republicans to president trump and education secretary betsy devos as the administration threatens to cut funding to schools unless they resume in person learning. Democratic senators spent the wee small hours of the morning holding the senate floor in a marathon protest of betsy devos s nomination as education secretary.

In a last minute bid to halt betsy devos confirmation as secretary of education senate democrats said monday they would debate on the chamber floor overnight to convince one more republican. Democrats will hold the floor for the next 24 hours until the final vote to do everything we can to persuade just one more republican to join us sen. But in this case as she has been many other times throughout her confirmation process devos is unique and democrats required the republican majority to run out the clock and pledged to hold the floor for the final 24 hours starting at noon monday. Her confirmation now moves to the floor of the senate where all she needs for confirmation is a majority vote.

Two republican senators voted tuesday against president donald trump s secretary of education nominee betsy devos forcing vice president mike pence to cast a historic vote to break the tie to. For most nominees legislators will agree to shorten that debate time. In an effort to stop the confirmation of betsy devos as secretary of education senate democrats spent monday night and tuesday morning speaking on the senate floor about devos inexperience and.