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Hours of tense negotiations to reach an agreement on the nominees of President Donald Trump exploded on Saturday night, and now the legislators go home.
The Republicans and Senate Democrats quickly rushed each other because of the disappearance of the agreement, but it was ultimately Trump who intrigued the conversations.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, speaks with the media when he arrives at the Glasgow Prestwick airport on July 25, 2025 in Prestwick, Scotland (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
In a long publication on its social networks Truth Social, Trump accused the leader of the Chuck Schumer Senate minority, DN.Y., to “demand more than one billion dollars to approve a small number of our highly qualified nominees.”
“This demand is atrocious and unprecedented, and would be shameful for the Republican party if accepted. It is political extortion, by any other name,” Trump said. “Tell Schumer, who is under a tremendous political pressure of his own party, the lunatics of the radical left, who go to hell!”
“Do not accept the offer,” he continued. “Go home and explain to your constituents what bad people are the Democrats, and what great work are the Republicans, and have done, for our country. Have a great recess and make the United States great again!”
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The United States Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NE), walks to speak at a press conference after the weekly lunch of the Senate's democratic policy in the United States Capitol on June 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna MoneyMaker/Getty images)
Instead of finding a path to vote on up to 60 of the president's nominees, all of whom moved through the committee with the bipartisan support, the legislators voted the fast fire of seven before leaving Washington until September.
But before the president's edict, both sides of the hall believed they were on the verge of an advance to fulfill Trump's desire to see his confirmed nominees and leave Washington.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., said there were “many offers” between him and Schumer in the course of the negotiations.
“There were several different moments in which I believe that one or both parties perhaps thought there was a deal at the end,” he said.
The Senate Democrats wanted the White House to defrite billions in the financing of the National Institute of Health and Foreign Aid, in addition to a future agreement that no more naquia packages would come from the White House.
In return, they would illuminate several of Trump's non -controversial nominees.
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Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla, accused Schumer of going “too far” by increasing the price of his demands.
“We have had three different offers since last night,” he said. “And every time it has been, it is every time 'I want more,” Mullin said about Schumer's demands.
He said the Republicans were not taken by surprise by Trump's call to stop the conversations, and pointed out that the White House had been very involved in the negotiations.
“You realize what there was, it was never about making a deal,” he continued. “They want to leave and say that the president is not realistic, and because he cannot respond to his base to reach an agreement like us in all other president in history.”
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Now, the Republicans will not look for recreation quotes, but Mullin said that progress with a rule change in the confirmation process when legislators returned in September was going to happen in response.
The Senate Democrats, on the other hand, responded that their offer never changed, and that the Republicans continued to increase the number of nominees who wanted in the line and tried to include in more controversial and partisan selections.
“The question evolved on both sides with time,” said Thune. “But in the end, we never reached a place where we both agreed to block it.”
