Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Democrats Aren’t Blocking Trump’s Nominees

The president’s threat to adjourn Congress is based on a misapprehension.

April 16, 2020 at 11:33 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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The most important thing to know about President Donald Trump’s out-of-nowhere threat to adjourn Congress and make recess appointments because Democrats are blocking his executive-branch nominees isn’t whether he can do it or whether he should. It’s that his complaint is entirely untrue: Democrats aren’t blocking his executive-branch nominees.