An unprecedented rule change has cleared the way for Senate Republicans to confirm more of President Donald Trump’s nominees this year than former President Joe Biden secured during his first year in office.
The Senate is on track to confirm a total of more than 400 of the president’s nominees before the chamber recesses for the holidays — a larger group than both 2021, Biden’s first year, and 2017, the beginning of Trump’s first term. The chamber is set to surpass those tallies before the week’s end when senators vote on final confirmation of a package of more than 90 ...