Vlad Davidiuk - Political Consultant, Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sex twenty three is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
All right, so we have cabinet appointments being made daily.
We've had quite a few. Some of them are considered chewins.
Some of them are considered controversial or maybe difficult or
more difficult. Glad to video joins this political consultant. How
hard do you think it's going to be for Matt
Gates at his Senate hearings? What do you think?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think it's going to be hugely difficult for Matt
Gates to gain successful confirmation simply because a lot of
senators on both sides, as you have, expressed some reservations
and some concerns that said, President Trump goes into this
with a huge amount of leverage and a huge amount
of political capital, and he can make life extraordinarily difficult

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for both members both sides of the Senate, and it's
to their advantage to be on his good terms to
be able to pass legislation that they know needs to
get passed.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, all right, So the more difficult ones, you know,
they keep talking about recess appointments. Explain to us, if
you would, Lad, how a recess appointment works. I know
it's when the Senate is not in session. But how
does it work as far as being able to appoint
somebody when the Senate is not there to confirm somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, recis appointments are a mechanism that's put in place
by you know, through the Constitution, which allows president to
make temporary appointments without Senate confirmation when the Senate is
in recess. So if a need arises that a president
has the ability to not have to wait for Senate confirmation.
And you know, this was developed in a time when

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Congress met less frequently, you know, when Congress would be
out of office and back in the district for a
much longer period of time. And recent appointments, both parties
have used it. I mean, it's not something that's uncommon.
President Bush did a ton of them. Bill Clinton and
Obama did a lot of them. But it changed in

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twenty fourteen when the Supreme Court ruled against Obama and
they called multiple of his recess appointments unconstitutional, and so
they changed the way it functions that it can only
take place when a recess lasts ten days or longer,
and so it makes it much more tricky to be
able to implement those uh, constitutional, those recess appointments that

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the president needs to fill those vacancies.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Okay, So the only the only way you could technically
get that through is if it's a recess of ten
days or more. And I guess if you have the
cooperation of the Senate majority leader, and you have controlled
the Senate and the Republican Party, does you could take
a recess for more than ten days to allow that
to happen, right.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You can? I mean during during his first term, and
President Trump got very frustrated because there were a huge
delays in confirming his nominees, and he advocated for the
use of recess appointments, and he certainly talked about it
during his campaign, and he's he's asked Senators to deeply

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consider using this policy and being open to it because
he knows that there will be opposition to his Make
America Great agenda by Democrats in Congress. I mean, if
you consider the fact that in this first term, it
took one hundred and fifteen days to confirm nominees, and
that's a huge amount of time for an office to

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be vacant when the needs of the American people are
our first and foremost, and so what the Senate is
needing to do now is is their role in vetting
nominees not only ensures the checks on making sure that
these are quality people and that they're suited for the task,
but it makes it possible for them to continue doing

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the work that the American people need them to do.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Nice sir, thanks as always appreciated. Glad to Vidio, Political Consultant,
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