Sentences with phrase «first cabinet nominee»
It's looking like she may be their first cabinet nominee in history to have her vote decided by the Vice President with the Senate evenly split.
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President - elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said on Tuesday, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S. economic Cabinet post for the first time in eight years.
Two Republican senators announced they would oppose Trump's choice for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, marking the first GOP defections on a cabinet nominee, placing her confirmation in jeopardy and underscoring the warfare breaking out across Capitol Hill.
The names of the children of the two influential politicians, who were part of the governor's cabinet during his first term, were missing on the list of nominees he recently sent to the House of Assembly for confirmation.
She even lost the support of a few Republicans, so that her confirmation on Feb. 7 was secured only after Vice President Pence, as presiding officer of the Senate, cast the first tiebreaking vote in U.S. history to confirm a Cabinet nominee.