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Scoop: Donald Trump Jr. tells Senate GOP to hold line against Democrats’ lame duck push

Donald Trump Jr. is giving Senate Republicans backup amidst the lame duck session, telling them to “hold the line and not allow Schumer to push Biden’s radical judges and legislation.”

Trump told the Washington Reporter that “my father is about to take office with a Senate majority; the American people expect Republicans to stop the Democrats and enact the MAGA agenda.”

That message is resonating with Republican Senators, who tell the Reporter that Biden’s “bad faith” efforts to ram through partisan activists aren’t succeeding. Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) blasted the “last-ditch effort by Senate Democrats and the Biden administration to install an activist judge,” Ryan Park, in the lame duck. “The Biden administration has constantly worked in bad faith to fill this vacancy and even originally tried to nominate a partisan Democrat who ran against Sen. Ted Budd,” he said. “Americans spoke loud and clear last week: no more activist judges. No partisan lame duck confirmations.”

Tillis’s message is echoed by top Trump allies, who told the Reporter that they do not want the Senate moving on any of the radical policies or nominees of the Biden administration during the lame duck Congress. This comes as Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), the Judiciary Committee’s chairman, is attempting to push through a number of judges appointed by President Joe Biden in the lame duck. Durbin is also attempting to jam through a number of legislative items and markups.

“The American people have delivered a clear mandate to Donald Trump and his MAGA Agenda,” Jack Posobiec, a Trump ally, told the Reporter. “To ram through appointees and laws now opposing that mandate does not respect the will of the American people and would be deeply un-American.”

“Just as Democrats did to President Trump in his first term, Senate Republicans must do whatever they can to end the Biden-Schumer judicial assembly line and stop these lifetime appointment nominations from moving forward,” Mike Davis, the president and founder of the Article III Project, told the Reporter. “To do that, they must force Democrats to use up every hour of debate time possible. Not just on leftist judicial nominations, but every nomination, even non-controversial nominations. Do not yield to demands from Democrats to speed things along and allow smooth confirmations — require the full use of debate time prior to confirmation. The American people have spoken. Republicans must stand strong.”

Senate Republicans will have 53 seats going next Congress as President Donald Trump retakes the White House after a historic comeback against Vice President Kamala Harris. Sources tell the Reporter that President-elect Trump will have a big push on judges and his legislative agenda right out of the gate.

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