President Trump got angry on Truth Social overnight, ripping Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Senate Democrats for “slow-walking” his nominees.
“Democrats, lead by Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, are slow walking my Nominees, more than 150 of them. They wanted us to pay, originally, two billion dollars for approvals. The Dems are CRAZED LUNATICS!!!,” the president wrote on his social network.
“Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is demanding over One Billion Dollars in order to approve a small number of our highly qualified nominees, who should right now be helping to run our Country,” Trump wrote in a subsequent post. “This demand is egregious and unprecedented, and would be embarrassing to the Republican Party if it were accepted. It is political extortion, by any other name. Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL! Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country. Have a great RECESS and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
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The “$2 billion” appears to be a reference to negotiations, in which Democrats wanted Trump to release billions in funding for the National Institutes of Health and other parts of the government, as part of a deal to allow confirmation of Trump appointees.
“In a whirlwind of negotiations over three days, Democrats asked for multiple billions in government funds to be released in exchange for a vote on a batch of nominees President Trump wanted confirmed before lawmakers left for their August break,” CBS News had reported earlier in the week.
Schumer, the Senate minority leader, had wanted “$5 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $1 billion for the Global Fund, $300 million for the World Food Program, $50 million to fight HIV in developing countries, about $140 million for the United Nations Children’s Fund,” per the CBS story, in exchange for letting through about 20 nominees. Senators thought they had a deal, the report said, before Trump blocked it.
Democratic senators negotiated for release of billions in funds in exchange for confirmation deals, sources sayhttps://t.co/f07JZ5vpuu
— 🇺🇲99.44% Pure ADOS🇺🇲 (@BlissfulBeauty) August 4, 2025
A total of 140 Trump nominees, including 30 ambassadors, are awaiting confirmation. Another is Mike Waltz, the former national security adviser, who has been nominated as ambassador to the United Nations.
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