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People in congress have been getting ~1600 calls a minute vs the usual ~40/min. Directed pressure can work. Keep it up (lemmy.ml)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/chuck-schumer-democrats-trump-nominees-protest.html

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They should have been opposing them for being unqualified and corrupt regardless of his shitty policies...wtf

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Key word being "every nominee". He's still been against most of them

And has now been using more of their ability to delay nominations (though they cannot fully block without Republicans support)

[–] finitebanjo 1 points 1 week ago

Two of the earliest nominations were former congressmen which are actually qualified, corruptness aside, but Hegseth got 0 Dem votes and was still confirmed.