18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director: Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd

[AStern]

Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse

[SSJVegeta]

1. Why?

[CousinIT]

2. WTF?!

[bluestarone]

3. I'll wait for explanations. but

Man, this doesn't sound good.

[Ilikepurple]

4. I'm not sure I'm informed enough to have an opinion on this.

It seems he has more of the basic qualifications for his post than most Trump nominees, at least for the NSA part of the dual-post including cyber command. I also have a fundamental mistrust of Trump nominees. This is an issue where I’ll have to lean more on the knowledge and expertise of others here as my attempts at filling the large gaps in my knowledge about Rudd have fallen short.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

14. Who needs more info

other than, "bad, bad Democrats!"?

I appreciate your post.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

5. Did they ask if he believed tRumps Epstein War was to support Armageddon?

Or if he was beholden to tRump over the Constitution?

[LisaL]

6. I am going to take a wild guess that

they are scared of whoever Trump comes up with if they don't approve this one.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Neither Of My Senators Are Listed

Good.
Give him nothing. Make him fight for everything.

[SocialDemocrat61]

8. Kelly and Schiff?

That’s surprising, as well as Mazie Hirono.

[leftstreet]

11. Didn't Trump threaten to arrest Kelly?

Strip him of his titles, etc?

[SocialDemocrat61]

15. So?

Are you saying that Kelly is capitulating? What about Schiff and Hirono?

[choie]

9. I am losing my patience.

[leftstreet]

10. wtaf?

[Celerity]

12. Many are hardly a surprise, but I must saw, I'm very disappointed to see Baldwin's name again on another poor vote, plus

I am also very disappointed in Heinrich, Hirono, Reed, and Whitehouse.

None of the other 13 surprise me at all, especially the following 6:

Fetterman PA (of course)

and then

Shaheen (retiring) NH
Hassan NH

Cortez Masto NV
Rosen NV

Peters (retiring) MI

Those 6 have had the worst voting records for Dems in the Senate so far this Congress.


NOT ONE of the 18 YEAS is up for re-election in 2026 in a remotely close race, not one. Most are not even running in 2026.

Jon Ossoff, the only still-running Democratic Senator who has a close race this year voted NO.

[Clouds Passing]

16. Heinrich has been a disappointment