Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to adjourn the chamber early this week so Democrats can attending fundraising events throughout the country — though more than 100 of President Donald Trump's nominees remain to be confirmed.
"It's a disgrace to watch these Democrats continue to put politics ahead of America's national security interests," Andy Surabian, a former Trump special assistant, told The Washington Free Beacon. "It's time for Richard Grenell and the rest of the president's vital national security nominees to be confirmed."
Grenell, 51, whom Trump nominated as ambassador to Germany in September, remains to be confirmed.
He is among 129 Trump nominees who are awaiting Senate confirmation hearings as of late last month, according to news reports.
Others include Carlos Muniz, general counsel at the Education Department; Annie Caputo and David Wright, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and Anthony Kurta, a principal deputy undersecretary at the Defense Department.
In addition, the Senate has confirmed 294 of Trump's nominees, according to reports, and four have been announced but not yet officially nominated.
"When Leader McConnell adjourns you after two and a half days for the week you are able to fly to the West Coast to help fundraise to make him the minority leader," said one source close to the White House told the Free Beacon.
According to the report, at least nine women senators will be attending the "Women on the Road 2018" fundraiser to be held in separate locations across the United States later this week.
Tickets for the event range from $1,000 for a single brunch ticket to $50,000 for four tickets to a special reception, the Free Beacon reports.
These Democrats are scheduled to attend a Friday event near San Francisco: Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada; Maria Cantwell of Washington; Dianne Feinstein of California; Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire; Mazie Hirono of Hawaii; and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
At a fundraiser in Seattle on Saturday, Cantwell and Hassan will be joined by Sen. Patty Murray of Washington.
A top Republican donor also slammed McConnell for adjourning early so the Democrats can raise money.
"I know major Republican donors who aren't willing to raise money for Senate races in West Virginia, Missouri, and Indiana because McConnell isn't using the power he has so it seems to not matter if we are in the majority or minority," the donor told the Free Beacon.
"The Democrats are controlling the Senate now anyway."
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