Senate Confirms 107 Trump Nominees After Battle Over Backlog

More than 100 of President Donald Trump’s nominees were confirmed by the Senate Tuesday night under the chamber’s new expedited rules, largely clearing a backlog that led the chamber to make the changes.

The Senate voted 51-47 to confirm the package of 107 nominees, which includes agency heads, ambassadors, and US attorneys. One-time Senate candidate Herschel Walker to be ambassador to the Bahamas, David Fink to head the Federal Railroad Administration, and Sergio Gor to be ambassador to India are among the list of nominees confirmed through the resolution (S. Res. 412).

The group is the second to move through via the faster method, doubling the size of the first batch.

Senators are moving lower-level nominees after they changed a procedural threshold to a simple majority last month to allow them to be considered in groups. The change came following a standoff between the parties over nominees ahead of the August recess after Democrats blocked expedited consideration, leading to the backlog that would have taken months to move otherwise.

The chamber has continued to move on nominations on the floor and in committee during the government shutdown.

Hung Cao, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for Senate in Virginia in 2024, was originally part of the group but was confirmed to be under secretary of the Navy in a separate vote last week.