First on FOX: The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America launched a $1 million public education campaign to encourage the “speedy confirmation” of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees and will target the home states of key senators who could “make or break” the confirmation. process, Fox News Digital has learned.
The campaign will also educate the American public about the president’s authority over Cabinet appointments.
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“Tackling the deep state is not only a priority for President Trump – it is a mandate given to us by the American people,” the president of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America Dr. Kevin Roberts told Fox News Digital. “If he succeeds, it will cement his legacy as a president who stood up to the unaccountable Washington bureaucracy and returned power to the people.”
Roberts said Trump’s Cabinet picks “reflect his commitment to this mission, and now is the time for every conservative to quickly unite behind his nominees and save this great republic.”
Legacy officials, like Executive Vice President Ryan Walker, said the organization and “millions of grassroots conservatives are ready to support President Trump and his nominees through the fast-track Senate confirmation process.”
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during the America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday, November 14, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Walker told Fox News Digital that the new Senate GOP majority must “unite to deliver on the promises we made to the American people to implement the America First agenda as soon as possible.”
Walker said the organization plans to use “all advocacy tools” to ensure Trump’s Cabinet nominees receive “proper advice-and-consent consideration in the Senate as the founders envisioned.”
Meanwhile, the former general counsel for the US Department of Transportation under Trump, now a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Steve Bradbury, told Fox News Digital that Trump “is right to ask for a return to the regular constitutional order for appointments where the Senate gives quick consideration to nominations and votes fast confirmation.
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“The function of advice and consent of the Senate is critical to our constitutional system of separation of powers, but it should not be used to hinder the ability of the president to put qualified appointees in place,” said Bradbury. “The President also has the right to request an end to the Senate’s hesitant practice of using pro forma sessions to prevent recess appointments.”
Bradbury notes that until recent history, presidents have exercised their authority under the Constitution to fill vacancies during Senate recesses with temporary appointments.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts hosts a discussion with former Vice President Mike Pence titled “Agenda for Freedom and America’s Future,” in Washington, DC, Wednesday, October 19, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“This power is an important check on the advice and consent function of the Senate, and President Trump has the right to authorize the use of recess appointment powers if the Senate refuses to give a fair and speedy consideration,” he said.
Trump has tapped the majority of key Cabinet officials and is “confident” that Senate Republicans “will hold the line and respect the will of the American people by approving cabinet nominees.”
A Trump transition official told Fox News Digital that the president-elect is “very happy” with Vice President-elect JD Vance, who has been “laser-focused on getting the ball rolling for qualified nominees.”
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The Trump administration’s nominations and choices during the second administration were announced more quickly than during the first administration in 2016, which the transition team said was due to Trump’s commitment to implementing “America first.”
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“The American people re-elected President Trump by an impressive margin, giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail, and his Cabinet choices reflect the priorities to put America. President Trump will continue to elect highly qualified men and women who have the talent, experience and skills needed to Make America Great Again,” Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt previously told Fox News Digital when asked about Trump’s quick launch. of Cabinet Picks.
