{"id":293783,"date":"2021-03-23T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T22:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=293783"},"modified":"2021-03-23T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T22:45:39","slug":"senate-dems-announce-racial-litmus-test-for-biden-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-dems-announce-racial-litmus-test-for-biden-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Dems Announce Racial Litmus Test for Biden Nominees"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fsenate-dems-announce-racial-litmus-test-for-biden-nominees%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=293783&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3032.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic senators Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) announced a racial litmus test on Biden administration nominees, pledging to reject all &#8220;non-diversity&#8221; picks until the president promises to appoint Asian Americans to &#8220;key executive branch positions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duckworth relayed the decision to reporters on Tuesday afternoon. She called the lack of Asian American representation in President Biden&#8217;s cabinet &#8220;unacceptable,&#8221; vowing to oppose all White House nominees &#8220;until they figure this out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Biden Administration<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>She also confirmed that she will now opposed top Pentagon pick Colin Kahl, whose nomination has already been delayed by Republicans. She noted, however, that her moratorium would not apply to &#8220;diversity&#8221; nominees supported by congressional minority caucuses or to LGBTQ nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Hirono joined Duckworth&#8217;s pledge Tuesday evening, calling the move &#8220;very serious&#8221; in light of Biden&#8217;s &#8220;commitment&#8221; to appoint a diverse cabinet.&nbsp;While the Constitution does bar any religious test for high office, it does not mention a racial test.<\/p>\n<p>Duckworth said that the ultimatum was triggered by a Monday evening conversation with deputy chief of staff Jen O&#8217;Malley Dillon. According to Duckworth, O&#8217;Malley Dillon made an &#8220;incredibly insulting&#8221; reference to Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s Asian heritage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be told that you have Kamala Harris, we are proud of her, you don&#8217;t need anybody else is insulting,&#8221; Duckworth said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not something you would say to the black caucus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tammy Duckworth just told me she\u2019s voting NO on Biden nominees until President makes commitment\/ appoints AAPI picks to key executive branch positions. She said found it &#8220;insulting&#8221; that a senior WH aide last night pointed to Harris\u2019 South Asian roots when asked about AAPI picks<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1374437476845060104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the Senate&#8217;s 50-50 party split, Duckworth and Hirono may derail contentious Biden nominees like Kahl if their demands go unresolved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senators Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) announced a racial litmus test on Biden administration nominees, pledging to reject all &#8220;non-diversity&#8221; picks until the president promises to appoint &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311031,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3032.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Dems Announce Racial Litmus Test for Biden Nominees","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3032.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Dems Announce Racial Litmus Test for Biden Nominees","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293783","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}