Vice President J.D. Vance is confident that President Donald Trump will "get every single one of our nominations through" for his new cabinet, he said in an exclusive to Breitbart. The left has fought hard against his picks, including his most controversial choices.
Pete Hegseth has already made it through to become the new Secretary of Defense, thanks to the tie-breaking vote Vance cast in the Senate. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may not be far behind as his nomination advances for Health and Human Services Secretary.
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is also advancing for Director of National Intelligence while Kash Patel is on his way to becoming FBI Director. Despite major opposition from Democrats along the way, they have yet to derail any of Trump's picks.
Vance sees this as a very good sign. "Knock on wood, as you know I’m very superstitious," Vance said about the chances for all of Trump's cabinet to be confirmed.
Although the Trump administration has gotten the nominees through, it hasn't come without a fight. "Looking at this from sort of the perspective in December at the nominations that we had—we had Kash Patel, we had Tulsi, we had Bobby, we had Hegseth," Vance said.
"You had a lot of people where we saw this sort of immune response from the swamp to a lot of these nominations, and I definitely thought to myself, 'Okay, how many of these guys are we going to be able to get across the finish line? And if you told me we would have been able to get all of them across, I would have been happy," Vance went on.
"So, it’s been a lot of work. We’ve definitely had to have a lot of, I think, tough conversations with some of my former Republican colleagues in the Senate," Vance said of the GOP lawmakers who sided with Democrats to resist Hegseth's nomination.
"But I think sitting here right now, I think we get every single one of our nominations through, which is a really, really big testament, frankly, to the president’s political influence. I mean, if you had a garden variety Republican president, do I think we would have been able to get all of these nominations through?" Vance asked rhetorically.
"No, I don’t. It’s us working the process, it’s the president’s political influence, and it’s the nominees working hard to get through," Vance boasted.
Vance noted that the legacy media is colluding with the Democratic Party to protect the Washington, D.C. establishment swamp to keep out these "change-makers" Trump put forth. "It’s because they’re people who don’t plan to go along to get along—they actually plan to meaningfully change how the government operates," Vance said.
"If you look at Pete Hegseth, this is a guy who believes, rightly in my opinion, that the Pentagon has become too focused on bureaucrats and too focused on process and not focused enough on giving the warfighter what they need," Vance said. He noted that there is too much money at stake for those who have enriched themselves from "a procurement process that has become bloated and inefficient."
As for Kennedy, Vance said he persuaded fellow Republicans to embrace Kennedy. His "non-conventional views" and solutions to chronic disease were a hard sell, but Vance said it's all part of electing a leader like Trump.
"I think this is just what happens when you have a guy like Trump coming in, and he’s not saying here’s some things we want to tinker around the edges with. He wants to fundamentally transform the people’s government to make it more responsive to the interests of the American people, to make it more responsive to the interests of citizens as opposed to non-citizens, and that is not an easy challenge, and you have some backlash to it, but you work the process and make it happen," Vance said.
Things are looking up on just about every front for the new administration. Vance has good reason to be optimistic about Trump's cabinet picks as voters have given Trump a mandate to do exactly what he's doing.
