Senate Democrats have used every procedural tool available to prolong and stall the confirmation process for President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, but given their minority party status, all they have succeeded in doing is delaying the inevitable.

On Thursday, the Senate voted 51-47 to advance the nomination of Linda McMahon toward a final vote to be confirmed as the next head of the Education Department, according to Fox News.

McMahon is the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment and is a longtime ally of Trump who served as head of the Small Business Administration during his first term in office and as a co-chair of his transition team ahead of his second term that began last month.

Final procedural hurdle cleared

Per the Senate's roll call, the final tally on a vote to invoke cloture, or to move forward to the final stage, on McMahon's nomination was 51-47.

All Republican senators voted in favor of McMahon except for two, Sens. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota and Todd Young of Indiana, who were not present to cast votes, while all 45 Democratic senators and the two "independent" senators who typically caucus with them all voted against the nominee.

Sen. Marwayne Mullin (R-OK), who has been closely tracking and documenting the confirmation process for all of President Trump's nominees on social media, marked the occasion with multiple X posts in the same way that he has done for all of the other nominees who've already been confirmed.

"SUCCESS: @Linda_McMahon cleared this final hurdle. She’s on the clock," the Oklahoma GOPer wrote about the efforts of his fellow Senate Republicans to speed up the confirmation process as much as possible without any undue delays.

Final vote tentatively scheduled for Monday

Roll Call reported that after clearing the final procedural hurdle of a cloture vote, and barring any other unforeseen circumstances that might warrant further delay, McMahon is likely on track for a final confirmation vote on Monday.

That final vote will come more than a week after the nominee to head the Education Department was approved in a party-line vote by members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee following a set of contentious confirmation hearings.

Those hearings were disrupted on multiple occasions by outbursts from leftist activist protestors who hid in the crowd of spectators, as well as by pointed questions and criticisms -- not all of which were relevant to her nomination -- from Democrats on the panel.

Following her approval more than a week ago, committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said of McMahon, "If confirmed, Ms. McMahon has the tall task of reforming a Department of Education that has lost its purpose. For the last four years, the department focused on everything but student learning."

Meanwhile, Democrats led by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have loudly protested that the nominee is "unqualified" for the position and have expressed great fears, some legitimate and others unfounded, about the future of the department under her leadership.

Trump hopes McMahon will "put herself out of a job"

Roll Call noted that McMahon is a proponent of "school choice" and voucher programs that allow parents to use public funds to pay for their children to attend private schools, and has expressed her support for President Trump's plans to substantially downsize or even eliminate the federal department and "return education to the states."

Indeed, Fox News noted that Trump previously said that he is hopeful that McMahon will ultimately "put herself out of a job" once she is confirmed and in control of the nation's education.