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Senate GOP hurtles toward nuclear option after deal with Dems falls apart
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Senate GOP hurtles toward nuclear option after deal with Dems falls apart

Jimmie Dempsey
Last updated: September 11, 2025 9:02 pm
Jimmie Dempsey Published September 11, 2025
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Last-minute closed-door talks between Senate Republicans and Democrats failed to prevent a “nuclear option” in the upper chamber, as frustrations on both sides killed a deal to move ahead with President Donald Trump’s nominees.  

Lawmakers were inching closer to a deal that would have allowed sub-Cabinet-level nominees to be voted on in bunches, but neither side could reach a final agreement.

DEMS DIG IN AS GOP PREPARES TO GO NUCLEAR IN TRUMP NOMINEE RACE

Senate Republicans argued that a majority of their counterparts agreed with the new proposal, but that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was still standing in the way.

“I think the majority of Democrats are on board with it,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital. “And Schumer is blocking it from actually having consent to come to the floor.”

The failed deal was a modified version of a proposal first unveiled by Senate Democrats in 2023, and would have allowed 15 nominees to be batched together en bloc and voted on while still requiring two hours of debate for the group.

THUNE LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR NUCLEAR OPTION IN SENATE FIGHT OVER TRUMP NOMINEES

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

But when Lankford brought the proposal to the floor for consideration, Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, blocked it.

Schatz argued that Senate Republicans were trying to rush through the negotiating process ahead of their plan to leave Washington for the weekend.

“What they’re asking for is unanimity, and we don’t have it,” he said. “And so, if you’re interested in enacting this on a bipartisan basis, the process for doing that — It is available to you. But again, it’s more a matter of running out of patience than running out of time.”

TRUMP TELLS SCHUMER TO ‘GO TO HELL’ OVER SENATE NOMINEE DEAL FUNDING DEMANDS AFTER NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE

Trump speaks to reporters at the White House

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., fired back “how much time is enough?”

“Give me a break,” he said. “Two years. Not long enough. How about eight months? Eight months of this.”

With the prospects of bipartisan deal to move nominees through Democrats’ blockade, Senate Republicans are expected to continue down the path of the “nuclear option.”

 

That means that their initial proposal, which would allow for an unlimited number of sub-cabinet level nominees to be voted on en bloc with 30 hours of debate tacked on, is expected to pass with a simple majority, and effectively change the confirmation process in the Senate.

“We are achingly close to doing this like adults,” Schatz said.

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