Washington — Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Friday that he doesn’t believe there is “clarity” yet on whether all 53 Republican senators will support President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for his second administration.
In an interview with “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Thune, who took charge of the Senate on Friday with the start of the 119th Congress, was asked whether he knows some of his GOP colleagues will vote against confirming Pete Hegseth for defense secretary or Kash Patel for director of the FBI.
“We don’t have, at this point I don’t think, clarity on that,” Thune said. “I think these are nominees who are new enough, they’ve been going around and conducting their meetings, which I think, frankly, have gone very well, but they still have to make their case in front of the committee. And, you know, we don’t know all the information about some of these nominees. I think we know a lot about them, but they deserve a fair process, and that’s what we’ve committed to and promised and and I expect to deliver on.”
Thune noted that Republicans have a three-vote margin in the Senate and said each individual senator will decide how to vote on Trump’s picks.
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