{"id":2470295,"date":"2025-08-03T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-lee-drafts-adjournment-resolution-to-allow-trump-to-make-recess-appointments-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:19:03","slug":"mike-lee-drafts-adjournment-resolution-to-allow-trump-to-make-recess-appointments-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-lee-drafts-adjournment-resolution-to-allow-trump-to-make-recess-appointments-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lee drafts adjournment resolution to allow Trump to make recess appointments &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-lee-drafts-adjournment-resolution-to-allow-trump-to-make-recess-appointments-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2470295&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) announced that he is drafting a resolution to adjourn teh Senate in a way that would allow President Donald Trump to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maga-world-jolts-senate-gop-leader-race-by-rallying-around-rick-scott-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"MAGA world jolts ... GOP leader race by rallying around Rick Scott - Washington Examiner\">make recess appointments<\/a> for his stalled nominees amid an ongoing confirmation deadlock during the August recess. Lee stated that Senate Republicans are ready to confirm Trump&#8217;s nominees but will use this resolution as an choice if Senate Democrats continue to delay the process. Senate Minority Leader Chuck schumer mocked Trump for refusing to release funding as part of negotiations to move confirmations forward. Lee emphasized that Republicans will either confirm the nominees or have them recess appointed,expressing confidence in securing enough votes for the resolution. He also urged constituents to pressure senators, particularly Republicans, to address the backlog of nearly 160 nominations before the Senate breaks. Lee highlighted the recent confirmation of Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and stressed the importance of continuing confirmations without recess to avoid further delays.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mike Lee drafts adjournment resolution to allow Trump to make recess appointments<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2191179\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said on Saturday he is drafting a resolution to confirm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3488401\/trump-senate-session-confirm-nominees-recess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominees<\/a> as the confirmation process has stalled during the August recess.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3489625\/schumer-mocks-trump-after-no-deal-on-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) poked fun at the president for refusing to let the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3489601\/trump-accuses-schumer-political-extortion-amid-nominations-blockade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">release funding in exchange for continuing the confirmation<\/a> of Trump&rsquo;s nominees, saying Trump&rsquo;s refusal is &ldquo;the art of the deal.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3489642\/cruz-never-spoke-with-biden-during-presidential-term\/\">Cruz reveals he never spoke with Biden during his presidential term<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3489625\/schumer-mocks-trump-after-no-deal-on-nominees\/\">Schumer mocks Trump after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-mocks-trump-after-senators-head-home-with-no-deal-on-nominees-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Schumer mocks ... after senators head home with no deal on ... - Washington Examiner\">senators head home<\/a> with no deal on nominees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3489614\/senate-confirms-jeanine-pirro-top-dc-prosecutor\/\">Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as top DC prosecutor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>As the pause on the confirmation process continues, Lee said on X that he and Senate Republicans are &ldquo;ready, willing and able&rdquo; to confirm Trump&rsquo;s picks. Lee also said he drafted an alternate means to continue this work if Senate Democrats continue to stall.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve drafted an adjournment resolution, one that would allow President Trump to invoke his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >recess appointment powers<\/a>. So if this is the way the Democrats want to play, they might not like the result,&rdquo; Lee said in a video posted to X on Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&rsquo;ve drafted a concurrent resolution of adjournment&mdash;one that would allow President Trump to use his power under the Constitution to make recess appointments<\/p>\n<p>I believe we&rsquo;ve got the votes to pass it<\/p>\n<p>Dems can either stop delaying or face recess appointments<\/p>\n<p>Either way, we win <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VPLOGfDixt\">pic.twitter.com\/VPLOGfDixt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1951740895491183099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Either way, we&rsquo;re good. We just want to get President Trump&rsquo;s nominees in place, and we intend to do it. We&rsquo;re going to win,&rdquo; Lee said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lee also appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Steve-Bannon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Steve Bannon<\/a>&rsquo;s <em>War Room<\/em> podcast, saying the Senate will be busy during most of September, focusing on funding the government, and creating a &ldquo;backlog&rdquo; of nominees. He said people should contact their senators, &ldquo;especially if they&rsquo;re Republicans,&rdquo; and tell them to address Trump&rsquo;s nominees before they break for August.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can&rsquo;t kick the can down the road on President Trump&rsquo;s nominees. <\/p>\n<p>In September, the Senate will be focused on funding the government and our military. <\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m on the Senate floor, right now, confirming the President&rsquo;s people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NJDDVAjUyy\">pic.twitter.com\/NJDDVAjUyy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMikeLee\/status\/1951666308778791156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3489672\/trump-charlamagne-traditional-conservatives-epstein-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP BLASTS CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD WHO SAID &lsquo;TRADITIONAL CONSERVATIVES&rsquo; COULD TAKE BACK GOP OVER EPSTEIN FALLOUT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump thanked Republican senators on Truth Social for working to confirm his nominees while claiming Democrats want the nation to fail &ldquo;because they have failed.&rdquo; On X, Lee said Republicans will either confirm Trump&rsquo;s picks or <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1951758684121391138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">&ldquo;have them recess appointed.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/114961147474079611\/embed\" class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/embed.js\" async=\"async\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Lee celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3489614\/senate-confirms-jeanine-pirro-top-dc-prosecutor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">confirming Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia<\/a>, saying she has &ldquo;her work cut out for her&rdquo; in the nation&rsquo;s capital. He also said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1952015803689161000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the Senate shouldn&rsquo;t take recess<\/a> &ldquo;with nearly 160 nominees on the confirmation backlog.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2191179\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2191179\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lee drafts resolution to enable Trump&#8217;s recess appointments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2470296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mike-Lee-adjournment-resolution-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[60534,35410,44822,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2470295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-adjournment-resolution","tag-mike-lee","tag-recess-appointments","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mike-Lee-adjournment-resolution-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470299,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470295\/revisions\/2470299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}