Dear Liberty Activist,

Click HERE to URGE CONGRESS TO RECESS STARTING JAN. 4! 

Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) was elected Nov. 13 by the Senate Republican conference and is promising “to get to work implementing President Trump’s agenda on behalf of the American people” in a post on X.com. Now, Thune can prove it by confirming Trump’s choices to head federal departments and agencies, as he promised in his campaign to win the Senate’s top leadership spot — even if Thune and Republican senators would prefer other, specific persons in those positions.

On Nov. 10 Thune promised to get Trump’s choices confirmed when he was still running for Senate Majority Leader including using recess appointments: “We must act quickly and decisively to get the president’s nominees in place as soon as possible, & all options are on the table to make that happen, including recess appointments. We cannot let Schumer and Senate Dems block the will of the American people.” And on Nov. 12, Thune promised, “As Congress returns to Washington, we must prepare the Senate to advance President Trump’s agenda legislatively and ensure that the president-elect can hit the ground running with his appointees confirmed as soon as possible.”

But now, outgoing Senate Republcian leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has reportedly stated, "there will be no recess appointments," reported by the New Yorker's Jane Mayer in a now-deleted post on X.

In the meantime, during President Joe Biden’s honeymoon in early 2021, Senate Republicans routinely deferred to the President’s selection for Cabinet secretaries, no matter how radical they were, how much they disagreed with the President’s policies and no matter how awful the selections turned out to be for national security and the individual liberties of the American people.

The Biden-Harris administration ushered in a regime of censorship, government surveillance and political weaponization that targeted now President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters, botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan on an arbitrary, no-conditions timeline, left the U.S. southern border wide open and allowed millions of illegal aliens to penetrate the U.S., restricted U.S. energy and agriculture production while prices soared, institutionalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) racial and gender hiring quotas into the federal bureaucracy and U.S. corporations via Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) mandates and pushed radical gender ideology in the nation’s schools via the Department of Education.

And dozens of Senate Republicans voted to confirm the nominees who enacted the worst policies — the very policies Trump and Congressional Republicans campaigned against in 2024, and who after winning, Trump is now designating his nominees to undo and reform the broken federal leviathan that operates of its own accord in the administrative state when a Democratic President is not in the White House. These entrenched federal bureaucrats must now be removed from their positions insofar as they are nested in the federal workforce and who promise once again to obstruct the popular mandate of Trump, who literally dodged bullets and just won the popular vote and the Electoral College and who Congressional Republicans singularly owe their majorities to.

As the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished, and so it is with Senate Republicans, who are now refusing to confirm Trump’s nominees, including Trump’s choice of former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz to Attorney General, and are threatening to torpedo the nominees, with no deference whatsoever to the executive to staff his Cabinet and inner circle so that he can actually enact the policies that he openly campaigned on.

You know what to do! Let’s get on RecessCongressNow.org to urge the House and the Senate to go into recess on Jan. 4, 2025 right after they are sworn in!

If these so-called moderate Senate Republicans have already made up their mind to obstruct President-elect Trump, then Congress can just save the pretense and go into recess on Jan. 4 so that when Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20, he can recess appoint his nominees and hit the ground running. 

Let’s keep fighting!

For Liberty,

Robert Romano
Vice President of Public Policy
Americans for Limited Government
https://recesscongressnow.org