Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday will urge the Senate to quickly advance the dozens of State Department nominees that remain pending due to holds put into place by Republican senators, a State Department official told CNN
Blinken’s push for the nominees to move forward comes as Republicans in the Senate have been obstructing key national security posts across multiple agencies, and amid a partisan fight over the annual military spending budget. According to the State Department official, the agency currently has 61 nominees outstanding with the Senate, including 38 ambassadorial nominees awaiting confirmation for posts around the world.
The Chinese have a foreign policy of building roads and bridges and feeding poor people,” Vance said on the Senate floor in April when he announced his hold on her nomination. But his office did not detail how many total holds he currently has in place or the specific reason for each of the holds.
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