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Donald Trump said over the weekend that he wants the Senate to allow him to make recess appointments, a constitutional provision that allows a president to circumvent the Senate's advice and consent function to install his choices without a Senate vote.
“Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner,” Trump wrote in a post on X. “Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!”
Trump shouldn't need to do recess appointments.
