Three Significant Senate Confirmation Hearings This Week – RFK Jr, Gabbard and Patel
There are three big Senate confirmation hearings this week, starting with HHS nominee RFK Jr on Wednesday, and then DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard and FBI nominee Kash Patel on Thursday.
Robert F Kennedy Jr will have two days in front of two different committees (Wed and Thursday). Gabbard will have her Senate Intel Committee hearing and Kash Patel will have his hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee. None of the three are sure things with each of them having about a 50/50 chance of confirmation out of committee as current opposition is aligned.
♦ Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr starts the week Wednesday at 10:00am EST in front of the Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy’s opposition group consists of one of the largest lobbying groups in Washington DC, Big Pharma and Big Agriculture.
RFK Jr’s goal of reshaping HHS, FDA and USDA faces significant opposition from the lobbying groups who have paid for influence on policy and regulations and the Senators who have received funding to turn that lobbying into legislation and regulation. On the positive side, the general public sentiment is supportive of the MAHA agenda. Public pressure could be the factor that secures the nomination, but nothing is certain.
♦ Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard represents the biggest internal threat to the Intelligence Community power and control structure within Washington DC. However, recent reports now reflect that former Senate Intel Committee Chair Richard Burr is her guide in the nomination process.
As SSCI Chairman Burr was in favorable position with the IC in ’17, and ’18, but then after two years of passive support for the Trump targeting operation, he began to get wobbly in the eyes of the Seven Ways from Sunday group. They then carried out an operation to remove Burr via public leaks and investigative ends around Burr’s stock purchases and financial arrangements. Burr was softly excommunicated from his status and replaced with Marco Rubio.
Burr as the confirmation guide for Tulsi Gabbard explains why she changed her position on FISA-702 to gain SSCI support. However, as noted above, Burr no longer has the juice he once held, so this IC guiding hand might not be enough to dissuade opposition to Gabbard.
All of that said, some Senators are now demanding the SSCI have a public vote on the Gabbard nomination at the end of her inquisition. The thinking is that if the SSCI bad actors in the GOP are forced to have a public vote, they will be less likely to expose themselves. I doubt the committee will vote publicly, but you never know.
The SSCI is the enabling entity for the Intelligence Community corruption. If they were able to compromise her enough, they would likely vote to support her. However, if the SSCI members sense she is a simply telling them what they need to hear – and not actually believing it – they will likely reject her. SSCI Chair Tom Cotton cannot afford that sunlight, he has to give the illusion of strong support and let his intel enablers do the heavy lifting to destroy her. Again, successful exit from the committee to the full Senate is a 50/50 proposition on both votes.
♦ FBI Direct Kash Patel rounds out the trio. Despite what some may think, there’s a stronger likelihood of Patel having a smooth hearing in the Senate Judiciary from the GOP wing of the UniParty, simply because the public is so awakened to the corruption within the FBI.
Patel will face a full-throated attack effort from the Democrats and not a single democrat is going to support him; so, this one is all on the Republicans in the Judiciary Committee and in the full Senate hearing if he comes out of the committee with all Republican support.
SUMMARY: Democrats are going to go nuclear on all three of these nominees this week. All three are primary targets for the Left wing of the UniParty. It is not coincidental that the Senate “paperwork issues” have ensured that all three appear in the same 24-hour timeframe. This appears to be heavily scripted and by design.
Democrats want to stop President Trump, blunt his momentum, and/or at least damage him significantly in this process. This is their first best opportunity to dig in and resist, while simultaneously fundraising on the resistance optics. The corporate media have been pre-scripted with massive volumes of citations and talking points from the prior history of comments by all three of the targets.
Thursday will be the biggest day of Democrat resistance so far this year. Thursday is the day to watch.
This is also a big test for Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
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