GOP won’t help advance stuck ATF nominee

Published July 13, 2021 9:03pm ET



Senate Republicans so far unanimously oppose President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, guaranteeing he’ll remain in limbo until Democratic holdouts make up their minds.

“I can’t think of a single Republican, at this point, who I would expect to lose on that,” Senate Minority Whip and chief vote-counter John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said Tuesday.

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