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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.
Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.
“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”
Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.
Technically Dems didn’t confirm her. Every dem voted nay on several cabinet picks, such as fox news anchor Pete Hegseth who also lost 3 GOP votes and was still confirmed.
Even those that voted to confirm Noem had a net zero impact.
So then why vote for instead of against??
Better question, why waste time talking about it?
Because it shows their terrible decision making and love of helping republicans
None of this would be happening if people didn’t vote Republicans into power, and very few of these cabinet picks would pass with a simple DNC senate majority.
Why blame Democrats for things Republicans do?
None of this would be happening if
people didn’t vote Republicans into power, and very few of these cabinet picks would pass with a simple DNC senate majority.dems did more than just be republicans lite or controlled opposition.Why do dems keep working with or compromising with Republicans?