The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he won’t defend his party’s blockade of the president’s picks to top diplomatic posts.
But Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley have moved to slow-walk the confirmation of Biden’s nominees as a protest of his administration’s national-security decisions, frustrating lawmakers from both parties.
Risch’s remarks underscored the deep frustrations that Biden administration officials as well as close U.S. allies have expressed about the slow confirmation of the president’s diplomats and top State Department officials. But his remarks also highlighted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s difficulties in scheduling time on the Senate floor to process the nominations.
“If your criticism is, ‘we need more ambassadors out there,’ I couldn’t agree with you more,” Risch said. He noted that Schumer is able to process the nominations but added that “it takes time.”on Julianne Smith, Biden’s nominee to be ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Cruz, too, has begun to lift some of his holds on Biden’s diplomatic nominees.
But those efforts have also rankled European allies, who have complained that their U.S. counterparts are not yet able to take their posts 10 months into Biden’s presidency.
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