WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to force votes next week on a Republican plan to change the Senate’s rules to short-circuit Democrats’ ability to slow nominations from President Donald Trump.
McConnell announced the rules change on the Senate floor Thursday, setting up a potential vote next week on using the procedural “nuclear option” to change the Senate rules via a simple majority. McConnell has already used the procedure to gut the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees after former Democratic Leader Harry Reid deployed the so-called nuclear option years ago to eliminate it for all other judicial nominees.
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