[ June 14, 2026 ]
Schumer reportedly asked the White House to unfreeze about $1 billion of foreign aid and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in exchange for allowing the confirmation process for additional Trump nominees to move faster.
Donald Trump: Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is demanding over One Billion Dollars in order to approve a small number of our highly qualified nominees, who should right now be helping to run our Country. This demand is egregious and unprecedented, and would be embarrassing to the Republican Party if it were accepted. It is political extortion, by any other name. Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL! Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country. Have a great RECESS and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
Schumer reportedly asked the White House to unfreeze about $1 billion of foreign aid and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in exchange for allowing the confirmation process for additional Trump nominees to move faster.
“Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is demanding over… pic.twitter.com/lDn7omiQsb
— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) August 3, 2025
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President Trump calls Chuck Schumer’s demand for $1 billion in exchange for confirmations “political extortion.”
This is unprecedented extortion and obstructionism. Tell the Dems to pound sand. They had their chance.
Enough games. Call a recess and start making recess… pic.twitter.com/RjWW8rcK9V
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 3, 2025
Chuck Schumer's unprecedented blockade of President Trump's nominees will not stand. One way or another, I promise you, it's coming to an end. pic.twitter.com/eeU9wGvexT
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) August 2, 2025
Trump tells Schumer to ‘GO TO HELL’ over Senate nominee deal after negotiations blow up
By Ryan King, NY Post, Aug. 2, 2025:
President Trump blasted Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and told him to “GO TO HELL” as a fight over confirming executive branch political nominees boiled over and dozens of potential appointees were left in limbo.
Trump had wanted the Senate to stay in session and clear up the backlog of presidential appointees, but a deal between Republicans and Democrats to push through the nominees fell apart.
ADVERTISEMENTSenators went home for their August recess without confirming a slate of Trump’s nominees — leaving the president fuming.
“Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is demanding over One Billion Dollars in order to approve a small number of our highly qualified nominees, who should right now be helping to run our Country,” the president fumed on Truth Social.
“This demand is egregious and unprecedented, and would be embarrassing to the Republican Party if it were accepted. It is political extortion, by any other name. Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL!”
Many Republicans had been hoping to get just over 130 nominees from the backlog confirmed before the August recess.
Many of these types of civilian nominees breeze through the Senate via voice vote or unanimous confirmation. But Democrats took advantage of Senate rules to significantly delay confirmation of those picks.
President Trump speaking to reporters at the White House. 3
Trump also said in his post, “Go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country.” ZUMAPRESS.comSenate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) groused that no other president in recent history has faced so much obstruction.
Thune negotiated with Schumer (D-NY) on a deal to bundle up Trump’s picks to allow voting for them in bulk. In one iteration of the deal, the Senate would have voted on a batch of the picks before breaking for recess, and then another chunk when the upper chamber reconvenes.
ADVERTISEMENTBut it appears that Democrats wanted guarantees from Trump that he would unfreeze some of the funding his administration had cut off for foreign aid and the National Institute of Health.
“Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country. Have a great RECESS and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump added.
Senators had been getting antsy, and tensions were high as the standoff had begun cutting into the August recess.
Thune agreed to allow the typical pro forma sessions to continue, a process by which the Senate holds ceremonial sessions to prevent presidential recess appointments, which would allow Trump’s picks to get through without Senate approval.
Some Republicans flirted with the idea and with the possibility of going “nuclear” and rolling back the rules that enable Democrats to hold up the nominees. However, it is unclear if the GOP has a majority for that, as many moderate Republicans want to preserve Senate norms so they can block Democratic picks when the Republicans are in the minority again.
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