The Hill reported last month that the Senate went into its summer recess without reaching a deal to confirm nominees put forward by President Donald Trump.

That fact has frustrated the Senate's Republican members, who are now considering a nuclear response. 

GOP looking at changing Senate rules

According to The Hill, Republicans may vote on changing Senate rules to allow the confirmation of 10 or more nominees via a single vote.

What's more, the GOP lawmakers are also looking at the prospect of limiting the extensive flood of consideration that nominees must currently undergo.

Senate GOP zeroes in on plan to end Trump nominee blockade https://t.co/IZTR808rPw

— The Hill (@thehill) September 3, 2025

Those options are being considered by a working group that includes Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt, who told The Hill, "I think everybody’s pretty united in moving forward, and actually moving forward pretty quickly. 'En bloc' is definitely top of the list."

"I think we’re coalescing around a proposal to be able to move a number of nominees who … either have bipartisan votes or those positions have just never been objected to like they’re being objected to, so we want to move forward," he added.

Similar plan proposed two years ago by Minnesota Democrat

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso spoke up as well, telling reporters that "[i]t still takes a while to get through the blockade. So it would be important … to be able to batch these, which is the standard of what we used to do in the past."

Meanwhile, South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds stressed that "we are talking about the vast majority of the ambassadors, the vast majority of the sub-level Cabinet [nominations] who normally receive very few ‘no’ votes and, in fact in the past, have basically been voice votes before you leave for a recess."

Interestingly, The Hill pointed out that a version of the proposal being weighed by Republicans was originally set forth two years ago by Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

However, GOP senators may augment it by increasing the number of nominees who can be voted on at a time as well as dropping the requirement that they all come from the same committee.

Trump accuses Democrats of "political extortion"

In its August report, The Hill explained that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer would move forward on confirmation votes unless billions of dollars worth of foreign aid and  National Institutes of Health funding was restored.

That fact was met with condemnation in a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump, who called it "egregious and unprecedented."

"It is political extortion, by any other name," Trump asserted. "Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL!"