Senate Confirms 48 Trump Nominees All At Once!

It’s about time Senate Republicans have used their majority to their advantage.

On Thursday, the Senate voted to confirm 48 of President Trump’s nominees in a single vote.

Most of the confirmed nominees were for ambassador positions.

Take a look:

NOW – U.S. Senate confirms 48 of Trump's nominees all at once, 51-47. pic.twitter.com/97YhH8CJtP

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 18, 2025

NBC News broke down the votes:

The Senate confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a single vote on Thursday after the Republican majority triggered the “nuclear option” to make a far-reaching rule change.

The party-line vote of 51-47 confirms a slew of Trump picks for sub-Cabinet positions and ambassadors. They include former Rep. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y., as undersecretary of energy for nuclear security, former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece and Callista Gingrich, wife of the former House speaker, as ambassador to both Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

It came after Senate Republicans voted to overturn existing rules with a simple majority to bypass the 60-vote threshold for confirming nominees in batches. The GOP effort to go “nuclear” — the term for changing Senate rules on a party-line basis — was unanimous, joined by centrist Sens. Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska.

Democrats voted at every turn to stop the rule change, but with only 47 seats, they didn’t have enough votes.

48 NOMINEES: CONFIRMED TODAY ✅@SenateGOP ended liberal obstruction and CHANGED the Senate rules to get @POTUS’ sub-cabinet noms in place (in groups) and speed up the process.

We just confirmed the first “en bloc” nominee package of 48.

More to come. 👇 pic.twitter.com/Dg4oxsrHCl

— Markwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) September 18, 2025

The Hill reported more details on the Senate Republicans’ big win:

A half-dozen ambassador nominees were also part of the tranche. Kimberly Guilfoyle for Greece and Callista Gingrich for Switzerland and Liechtenstein are among the most notable names.

The rule change took place after weeks of internal GOP discussions and in the wake of failed negotiations on a bipartisan nominations package prior to the August recess.

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It also came after Thune and his colleagues railed for months about Democrats’ unwillingness to consider any Trump nominee for passage via unanimous consent or voice vote. Democrats had forced Republicans to use up the entire clock in order to pass any Trump nominee, except for Secretary of State Marco Rubio in January.

Republicans considered a number of avenues but settled on the en bloc effort as they determined it was the quickest way to clear the deck of nearly 150 lower-level nominees that remained stalled out.

The GOP rule change was based on a proposal offered by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Angus King (I-Maine) two years ago. Theirs would have allowed 10 nominees from an individual committee to be considered together and passed in a single vote. The change Republicans approved doesn’t have a cap on the number of nominees in a bloc.

The alteration does not allow judicial nominees to be included in an en bloc package. They still have to be processed individually.