Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Senate skeptics are joining what is expected to be full Democrat opposition to former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., as the next attorney general.
The Senate holds the advise and consent role over Trump’s Cabinet nominees and the self-proclaimed “firebrand” Gaetz has his own detractors, giving him a large mountain to climb to garner enough support to be confirmed to replace Attorney General Merrick Garland.
There are at least five Republican senators who have at times broken from Trump to come out against Gaetz’s nomination and another, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Thursday he wants to review the House ethics report on Gaetz, an investigation that seemingly had been spiked when Gaetz abruptly resigned his seat once nominated Wednesday.
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