Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will meet with President-elect Trump on Monday as Capitol Hill prepares for a full week of confirmation hearings for members of the incoming Cabinet.
The meeting between the Kentucky Republican and president-elect was set to take place first thing Monday morning, before Trump conducted separate sit-downs with two executives from Univision News and David Shulkin, the undersecretary for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Senate Republicans are gearing up for a busy week in Washington as they take their first steps toward repealing Obamacare, a top priority of the president-elect and GOP-controlled Congress.
Despite a growing number of Republican senators advising their colleagues against repealing the sweeping healthcare law without having a replacement ready, McConnell said Sunday that “there ought not to be a great gap” between undoing Obamacare and “replacing it rapidly after repealing it.”
In addition to votes on healthcare legislation, the Senate will conduct a total of nine confirmation hearings for seven of Trump’s Cabinet nominees this week. Democrats have already begun protesting the timing of the hearings, noting that many of Trump’s picks have yet to complete a background review that is meant to ensure against conflicts of interest.
