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The senators note that, unlike others with high-level security clearance, Musk does not report his contacts with foreign government officials.

The Senate can confirm or block high-level appointments by the president with a simple majority vote, meaning Trump’s Cabinet picks could be appointed without any support from Democrats.

In 2020, the former high-level Republican strategist Stuart Stevens wrote that by embracing Donald Trump, people who created the modern Republican Party had egregiously betrayed the principles it claimed to represent.

In turn, Trump has worked to humiliate them by nominating the worst possible people for high-level federal appointments.

Several of his high-level nominees faced drawn-out battles — a few withdrew, but most were eventually approved.