Washington Free Beacon reporter Elizabeth Harrington appeared Monday on Fox Business with Neil Cavuto to discuss efforts by Senate Democrats to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet confirmation process.
Many Democrats have argued that Trump's nominations are being rushed to confirmation without the nominees submitting financial disclosure forms to show any possible conflicts of interest. The nominees who have not submitted such forms include Betsy DeVos for secretary of Education, Wilbur Ross for secretary of Commerce, Ben Carson for secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and John Kelly for secretary of Homeland Security.
"That doesn't necessarily mean that these forms would not become available when the Senate itself votes on each and all of these individuals," Cavuto said. "But it does come at a time when there is a debate back and forth as to whether the president-elect and Republicans in general are rushing these names."
Cavuto then played a clip of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) saying he does not foresee any problems with the nominees getting confirmed, particularly those who recently served in the military. Harrington agreed with McConnell.
"I think he's absolutely right," Harrington said. "I think he made a good point in saying that when Barack Obama came into office in 2009, he had seven nominees who were already confirmed on day one. So, I think it should be the same for Republicans, and that's what Majority Leader McConnell is trying to do."
"And really, Democrats don't have a good argument, especially on the military leaders," Harrington continued. "They already have the waiver for General [James] Mattis. These are very respected leaders who really they [Democrats] don't have a big argument against."
"I think it will be smooth, and Republicans control the Senate, so I think they want to kind of crash in all of these so the Democrats don't have a cohesive message against one of these nominees to derail them," she concluded.