Senate Advances Pam Bondi Nomination — Here’s When She Could Be Confirmed

Things are moving along when it comes to confirming President Trump’s Attorney General pick.

On Monday evening, the Senate voted to invoke cloture on Pam Bondi’s nomination for AG.

This move will limit debate and hasten along Pam Bondi’s confirmation vote.

While we don’t have an assured date for Bondi’s confirmation vote, it should be happening within days now — as early as Wednesday morning.

Take a look:

🚨The GOP-led Senate breaks filibuster on Pam Bondi's nomination for U.S. Attorney General

The vote to invoke cloture on Pam Bondi's Cabinet nomination was 52-46

Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly did not vote

A final confirmation vote is expected… pic.twitter.com/rYzN7X1RQO

— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) February 4, 2025

Pam Bondi nomination for Attorney General moves on to a final Senate confirmation vote after Senators voted to invoke cloture & moving Trump's AG nominee 1 step closer to a final full Senate floor vote to come in the early Wednesday morning hours

The vote was 52-46 along party… pic.twitter.com/sdIZhAVtbT

— Mona Salama  (@ByMonaSalama) February 4, 2025

The senate tallied up a final vote today for Pam Bondi. The chamber voted 52-46 to limit debate. Absent an agreement with Democrats, that puts a final confirmation vote on the docket for the early hours of Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/fmN9Tx9ly3

— SonnyBoy🇺🇸 (@gotrice2024) February 4, 2025

From Fox News:

President Donald Trump‘s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, will now move on to a final Senate floor vote for confirmation after senators voted to invoke cloture and limit the remaining floor debate.

Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who also spent 18 years as a prosecutor in Hillsborough County, earned praise this month for her composure during her confirmation hearing, which stretched for nearly six hours. She was also praised for her ability to deftly navigate thorny and politically tricky topics and lines of questioning from some would-be detractors.

By a vote of 52-46, the Senate invoked cloture on the nomination on Monday night, defeating the legislative filibuster.

If confirmed, Bondi stressed, her primary goal would be to enforce federal law without political considerations.

“Politics has to be taken out of this system,” Bondi told the Senate Judiciary Committee, a refrain she returned to multiple times during her conversations with lawmakers.

“This department has been weaponized for years and years and years, and it has to stop,” she said.

The Hill added:

The Senate on Monday teed up a final vote on Pam Bondi’s nomination to lead the Justice Department.

The chamber voted 52-46 to limit debate. Absent an agreement with Democrats, that puts a final confirmation vote on the docket for the early hours of Wednesday.

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Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who also worked on Trump’s team to challenge the 2020 election results, has faced tough questions from Democrats throughout the confirmation process but hasn’t seen any GOP defections.

She advanced out of the Judiciary Committee last week on a party-line, 12-10 vote.