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    What is a break schedule? What to know as Trump expresses his support

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    It’s been almost two weeks since the President-elect Donald Trump defeated vice president Kamala Harris to return to the White House for another four years. During that time, Trump began announcing key hires for his cabinet.

    Some of his nominations have been controversial, including Florida Representative Matt Gaetz for the Attorney General and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

    Many of the jobs Trump is starting to fill require Senate hearings as well as a majority vote in the House to be approved. With that in mind, Trump could be looking for an obscure clause in the Constitution that would somehow allow him to bypass the Senate to nominate his nominees.

    Here’s what we know about break schedules.

    What are break schedules?

    A nominee appointed by a president goes through a vetting and approval process, usually by the Senate.

    This process may take some time. right Center for Presidential Transitionit took an average of 115 days for Trump’s nominees to be confirmed in his first term.

    That delay is allowed by The Constitutionbecause it allows checks on presidential power and excludes corrupt or unqualified candidates. But within this rule, there is an exception: recess appointments.

    The the appointment clause during the break says that when the Senate is in recess, the president can make temporary appointments without the approval or vetting process normally carried out by the Senate. The clause itself arose at a time when Congress did not meet as often as it does now.

    right National Parks Servicemost of the first six Congresses met twice a year, with months of recess in between.

    Appointments are also temporary, lasting only until the end of a session of Congress which are one year old. But to go into recess, all senators would have to vote for the recess, which could be blocked by senators concerned about Trump’s nominees.

    Have any presidents made recess appointments before?

    The recess programs have been used by various presidents over the past two decades. And both Democratic and Republican administrations have used the tool to make appointments.

    right Congressional Research ServiceGeorge W. Bush made 171 such appointments, while Bill Clinton made 139 and Barack Obama made at least 32 recess appointments.

    But the process was uprooted by the Supreme Court in 2014, when the justices ruled against former President Obama, finding several of his recess appointments unconstitutional, and recess appointments could only be made during a recess of 10 days or more much.

    Trump has long been a supporter of recess appointments

    The idea of ​​recess programs has been seen in a positive light by Trump for years.

    During his first term, Congress used “pro forma” sessions.or short sessions of the Senate or House during which no business is ordinarily transacted, to prevent him from making break schedules.

    In 2020, the then-president even threatened to implement a never-before-used rule to force Congress to adjourn. This would have allowed him to make appointments without Senate approval, according to Reuters.

    This year, after his election, he publicly expressed his desire to use the recess appointment process.

    Republicans on Capitol Hill have expressed their desire to confirm Trump’s nominees as soon as possible in the new year. Senator South Dakota. John Thuneelected Wednesday as leader of the Republican Senate, expressed these sentiments on X.

    “We must act quickly and decisively to get the president’s nominees in place as soon as possible, and all options are on the table to make that happen, including recess appointments. We cannot let Schumer and the members of the Senate block the will of the American people,” he said in a social media post.

    Contributed by Ashley Ferrer

    Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Contact him at [email protected] and follow X @fern_cerv_.

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