Confirming Nominees Shouldn’t Be This Hard

Politico: “Overall, Biden has nominated 405 people for Senate-confirmable positions across the government, including the State Department. Of those, 288 are still awaiting confirmation, far more than his modern predecessors. Before Biden, and dating back to Bill Clinton, no president had more than 178 nominees awaiting confirmation at this stage. (That was Donald Trump.)”

Jonathan Bernstein: “That’s before the last handful of confirmations were processed leading up to the Senate’s August recess, but unlike in previous administrations there was no large list of nominees agreed to before the break. The result? While Barack Obama had 293 of his important nominations confirmed at this point, and George W. Bush had 283, Biden has only 127.”