{"id":299998,"date":"2021-03-24T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=299998"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:00:34","slug":"the-eight-hour-protest-dem-senators-back-away-from-boycott-of-white-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-eight-hour-protest-dem-senators-back-away-from-boycott-of-white-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eight Hour Protest: Dem Senators Back Away from Boycott of White 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\">26<\/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%2Fthe-eight-hour-protest-dem-senators-back-away-from-boycott-of-white-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=299998&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-3162.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Democratic senators backed down from their threats to block all future Biden administration non-minority nominees after just eight hours late Tuesday night, saying the White House had satisfied their demands about a lack of Asian-American diversity in President Joe Biden&#8217;s cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reversal came after Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii) faced harsh criticism from both the left and the right, and after Biden appeared to push back against their concerns, telling reporters that he had <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;the most diverse cabinet in history. We have a lot of Asian Americans who are in the cabinet and sub-cabinet levels. Our cabinet is formed.&#8221;<\/span><\/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 Democrats<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/the-eight-hour-protest-dem-senators-back-away-from-boycott-of-white-nominees\/\"><strong>The Eight Hour Protest: Dem Senators Back Away from Boycott of White Nominees<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kristina-schake-weinstein-scandal\/\"><strong>Becerra Hires Former Hillary Clinton Aide Who Ignored Warnings About Harvey Weinstein<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/texas-dem-shares-photos-of-overrun-migrant-facility-as-border-crisis-mounts\/\"><strong>Texas Dem Shares Photos of Overrun Migrant Facility as Border Crisis Mounts<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duckworth and Hirono threatened to shoot down all non-minority nominees until Biden took steps to put more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in high level positions on Tuesday afternoon. The senators announced that they would specifically vote against Colin Kahl, the nominee for undersecretary of defense for policy, if his nomination went to the Senate floor\u2014a threat that seemed designed to spur urgency in the White House, ahead of Kahl&#8217;s confirmation vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But just hours later, late Tuesday night, the senators said they were lifting the boycott due to the White House&#8217;s &#8220;assurances that it will do much more to elevate AAPI voices and perspectives at the highest levels of government,&#8221; said Duckworth in a statement to NBC News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These supposed concessions included &#8220;appointing an AAPI senior White House official&#8221; and other unnamed and unspecified cabinet appointments, according to Duckworth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many left-leaning Twitter users panned Duckworth and Hirono for the boycott on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;More AAPI representation is welcomed yes, but blackmail never looks good,&#8221; wrote one user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenDuckworth\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@SenDuckworth<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stop being insulted and do your job. We don&#8217;t have time, we barely hold the Senate for God&#8217;s sake,&#8221; wrote another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryan Grim, D.C. bureau chief for the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intercept<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, saw another motive in Duckworth&#8217;s short-lived opposition to Kahl&#8217;s nomination\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryangrim\/status\/1374446169233915908\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">calling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it a &#8220;huge favor for Israel.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Duckworth says she&#8217;ll block all future Biden nominees until he names a high-ranking AAPI official. That demand just happens to come moments before she does a huge favor for Israel by opposing a lead advocate of the Iran deal under Obama. But he&#8217;s white, so it&#8217;s for justice&#8217;s sake,&#8221; wrote Grim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conservatives also slammed Duckworth and Hirono for threatening to vote down only white candidates, characterizing it as a racist decision.<\/span><\/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>Two Democratic senators backed down from their threats to block all future Biden administration non-minority nominees after just eight hours late Tuesday night, saying the White House had satisfied their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311060,"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-3162.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"The Eight Hour Protest: Dem Senators Back Away from Boycott of White Nominees","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299998","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-3162.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"The Eight Hour Protest: Dem Senators Back Away from Boycott of White Nominees","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299998","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=299998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}