Senate confirms Trump pick Wright to lead Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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The Senate confirmed its first candidate from the week before what is expected to be a table full of jam for taste through the largest possible number of President Donald Trump.
David A. Wright, Trump chose to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Committee (NRC) for a period of five years, in the upper room at 50 To 39 votes on Monday. This is not the first time for Right as Chairman of the Committee, after serving the role in 2020.
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President Donald Trump welcomes a super Paul Philadelphia football champion in the southern grass of the White House, on Monday, April 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiesfelbein)
Trump had previously used Wright during his first term, and he chose him again to lead NRC earlier this year. His new mandate is scheduled to end in 2030.
NRC is an independent organizational agency charged with organizing commercial nuclear power plants, reactors licensing, renewal and other elements related to public health and safety protection when it comes to nuclear energy. Wright’s confirmation comes in the aftermath of Trump’s announcement that the American Union and the European Union are entering a trade deal that would witness the bloc to purchase $ 750 billion of US energy over the next three years.
While the committee is independent of the other weapons of the government, Democrats in the Senate have taken the recent attempts to make the organizational body, from their point of view, is more partisan.
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Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order calling the agency to realize less strict safety standards, shortening time schedules for environmental reviews and a quarter of the nation’s nuclear power capacity by 2050: every part of the president’s endeavor to ensure American energy dominance.
The Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Shelly Moore Capito, RW.V. That over the past seven years, Rait was part of the committee, first as a commissioner starting in 2018 and then as a president, he would achieve the president’s desires.
“Achieving this will require the highly qualified and qualified commissioners who are enabled to lead the agency during a period of high expectations,” she said in a statement. “Well, David Wright meets this sign.”
Trump then launched a democratic member of the committee last month, according to what was reported, one of the employees of the Ministry of Governmental efficiency of the President (DOGE) from the Ministry of Energy to the Organizational Agency.
This has prompted Senator Sheldon Whitheus, the great democratic of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, to warn a “hostile acquisition” of the committee by the Ministry of Energy.
This step harmed what began as the support of the two parties to nominate Wi -Wihaus in the beginning, but it changed his position.
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The American Nuclear Organization Committee slogan is next to the United States flag during a meeting at the NRC headquarters in Rockeville, Maryland, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (Andrew Harr/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I hope that President Wright is going to this occasion, but the circumstances at the present time in NRC continue to deteriorate,” he said in a statement. “I cannot support repetition at the present time.”
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However, Wright’s assertion is a victory for both Republicans of the Senate and the White House after Trump called on the Republican Senate to win his candidate through the siege established by Democrats in the Senate.
There are now more than 140 “civil” nominations for jobs via glove from federal agencies, ambassadors and incense. The Senate has moved in a blatant clip over the past six months to confirm the candidates – it has registered nearly 100 so far – the President of the Senate has called for considering canceling the upcoming August break to complete more.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thun, warned RS.
He said: “Or they can curb their feelings anti-Trump’s reflexes and allow some of his candidates to approve or vote unanimously-just as the Republicans did when the roles were reversed.” “And I remember my colleagues of the dangerous and ugly race they put here. But the option is their choice. But whether it is slowly or in a fast way, we emphasize President Trump’s candidates.”
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2025-07-28 23:53:00