Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday that President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks have mostly fallen flat with Democrats, and should also worry Republicans.
“This Cabinet selection has been a disaster for the president,” Schumer said on CNN just hours before Trump’s inauguration.
“More conflicts of interest than you have ever seen,” he said. “People whose positions are fundamentally different than President-elect Trump’s.”
“This cabinet selection has been a disaster for the president” — @SenSchumer talks about confirmations https://t.co/0ldzUEFXHn
— New Day (@NewDay) January 20, 2017
He said Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee Tom Price, R-Ga., is a good example of a nominee who conflicts with Trump.
“President-elect Trump said, ‘I’m not gonna cut Medicare.’ People in America are for Medicare,” Schumer said. “His nominee for the secretary of health and human services made a career of trying to privatize, which means end Medicare as we know it.”
Schumer said it’s “too early to tell” if any of Trump’s picks will fail to make it through the Senate.
But he said some picks would go through today or Monday: Defense Secretary nominee James Mattis, Homeland Security nominee Gen. John Kelly and CIA Director nominee Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan.
