A Democratic senator is holding up nearly 90 of President Donald Trump’s administrative nominees—including the president’s pick for White House drug czar who he says is among many “unqualified” candidates who threaten to “undermine the rule of law and our national security.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee in October advanced the nomination of Sara Carter Bailey to join the administration as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). But when she was included in a en bloc confirmation package of 88 nominees for floor consideration, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) raised a procedural inquiry that led Republicans to stop the vote.
“I just blocked 88 Trump nominees from confirmation—including Sara Carter Bailey, a former Fox News contributor nominated to be our country’s drug czar,” Bennet said on the floor on Thursday. “Bailey was nominated by Trump, who just pardoned the former president of Honduras, as he served 45 years in prison for conspiring to distribute over 400 tons of cocaine.”
“I will not allow unqualified nominees, this White House, or the president to undermine the rule of law and our national security,” he said.
The procedural complaint Bennet raised has to do with the fact that ONDCP
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