<p>Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a> that the Senate GOP &#8220;has not let up the pressure at all&#8221; on Democrats as Republicans ram President Donald Trump&#8217;s cabinet appointments through their confirmations.</p>
<p>Senate Republicans, with their 53-47 majority, have cleared nearly all of the president&#8217;s most controversial picks after Kash Patel was confirmed to be the next FBI director in a 51-49 vote on Thursday. Mullin, who has gone to bat for each of Trump&#8217;s cabinet picks, told Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley that the confirmation process had gone smoothly thanks to Republican leadership that is laser-focused on supporting Trump&#8217;s agenda.</p>
<p>&#8220;What you&#8217;ve seen is a new leader in the Senate with Leader [John] Thune. He is just 100 percent grinding the Democrats down from the get-go,&#8221; Mullin told Morning Wire.</p>
<p>&#8220;And so once the president got confirmed and sworn into office on the 20th, what we did is we immediately started the clock on these nominees, and [we] haven&#8217;t stopped,&#8221; he added.</p>
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<p>The Republican senator from Oklahoma explained that the party didn&#8217;t wait for Trump to be sworn in on January 20 to push his nominees through the confirmation process. Since the new Republican-controlled Senate began on January 3, the GOP immediately went to work putting pressure on Democrats to speed up confirmations.</p>
<p>Mullin said that Thune &#8220;has literally kept that clock running 24/7, seven days a week&#8221; on cabinet confirmations.</p>
<p>After a cabinet nominee gets reported out of committee, &#8220;there&#8217;s a 24-hour soak,&#8221; followed by a 30-hour debate, he explained, adding, &#8220;On directors, like Kash Patel, when you invoke cloture on them, you have a two-hour debate. So while you still have a 24-hour soak, you only have two hours of debate on that person. So you can move those faster.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Even when we&#8217;re not here, the Democrats will negotiate and say, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t make us stay over on the weekend, we&#8217;ll allow the clocks to run consecutively, even though we&#8217;re not here.&#8217; So we&#8217;ll go ahead and invoke cloture on the next person,&#8221; Mullin told Morning Wire. &#8220;So when we get back here on Monday, we can confirm two people at once. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re so far ahead — because Leader Thune has not let up the pressure at all, not one bit on the Democrats.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked about Republican legislative priorities in the weeks and months ahead, Mullin — a member of the Senate GOP Deputy Whip team — said his &#8220;biggest focus&#8221; is &#8220;deregulation on the business sector.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The only way we bring down energy prices is you got to make it conducive that people can trust their investment, long-term investment and not just four years at a time,&#8221; Mullin said. &#8220;But most energy companies are investing 15 to 20 years at a time when they look at returns. So you got to have stability in the energy market. And that means you gotta have deregulation.&#8221;</p>

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