The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1)

[ThelmaLou]

@Aspenglow

Moscow Mitch must be getting desperate. He’s calling for votes that are failing.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judy Shelton to the board of the Federal Reserve, making her the latest in a string of failed nominees to the central bank.

Thank fuck this one did.

WHOA! That’s interesting!

I posted about that in the Stupid Pub Ideas thread:

NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)

Sixteen months ago, in the pre-coronavirus summer of 2019, President Donald Trump announced his candidates to fill two vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The nominations, formalized in January, languished in the Senate for months. Now, suddenly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to cram one of them—but only one of them—through the Senate. One of the nominees is a conservative with extensive central-bank experience, broadly respected by monetary-policy experts. Th…