WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate could vote to confirm Republican President Donald Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, this weekend, Majority Leader John Thune said on Thursday.
The Senate Finance Committee approved Bessent by a 16-11 vote on Tuesday, with two Democrats voting in favor.
Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, but Thune has complained that Democrats are using procedural maneuvers to slow the approval of some of Trump’s more controversial picks, including former Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
(Reporting by Bo Erickson; Editing by Scott Malone)
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