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Josh Hawley Throws A Wrench In Mitch McConnell’s Plans, Escalating Feud

US senators Josh Hawley and Mitch McConnell haven’t been on good terms in a while.

In fact, the two have had quite the feud going on.

The latest chapter sees Hawley blocking two of McConnell’s hand-picked nominees for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

The two nominees are part of a larger deal that McConnell made with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Naturally, this kind of deal should give pause to any republican leader worth a damn.

Hawley wants time to properly vet McConnell’s picks, who were set to be unanimously approved along with several Biden nominees.

“If Republicans are planning to install dozens of Biden nominees for positions across the federal government — without a vote — in exchange for just a handful of our own selections, I want to be sure that we get our nominees right,” Hawley wrote in a statement.

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Here’s the latest on the feud from the Hill:

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is throwing a wrench into Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) effort to confirm two former aides to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), escalating a feud between the first-term conservative senator and the veteran party leader.

Hawley informed McConnell in a letter Wednesday that he wants more time to vet the McConnell-backed nominees, who were slated to be approved by unanimous consent along with a slate of Biden nominees.

“By agreeing to such a negotiated package in exchange for just a few Republican appointees you have personally deemed a priority, I believe we risk giving away too much,” Hawley wrote.

“If Republicans are planning to install dozens of Biden nominees for positions across the federal government — without a vote — in exchange for just a handful of our own selections, I want to be sure that we get our nominees right,” Hawley wrote, citing the nominations of Andrew Ferguson and Todd Inman, two former McConnell aides, to the FTC and NTSB, respectively.

Our friends at Breitbart have more details:

“If Republicans are planning to install dozens of Biden nominees for positions across the federal government — without a vote — in exchange for just a handful of our own selections, I want to be sure that we get our nominees right,” Hawley wrote.

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“Andrew Ferguson, nominated to be a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, should answer additional questions on his philosophy concerning Big Tech, given the importance of that issue to our conference,” he wrote. “I also believe that Todd Inman, who is under consideration for the National Transportation Safety Board, should be asked to further articulate his views on various transportation policies, including rail safety and autonomous vehicles.”

Reforming and purging the administrative state of establishment employees is a priority for the America First movement. If reelected in 2024, Trump said he would work to deconstruct the administrative state, the apparatus of unelected bureaucrats in federal agencies who write binding rules with, without, or against the law.

Here is the letter Hawley sent to McConnell:

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