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A senator who “couldn’t be happier” with the president-elect’s staffing nominations pledged to have his committee help get “half a dozen of them approved in the first week.”

As corporate media and the establishment had thrown fits over a number of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks, considerable conversation had surrounded the potential need for recess appointments to bypass any obstruction. Joining Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures,” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) put some of those concerns to rest as he vowed a speed confirmation process for those under his purview.

“Are you going to be supporting all of President Trump’s nominees for his cabinet?” asked Bartiromo near the end of their discussion.

“You know, I couldn’t be happier with his nominees. I couldn’t have picked better. I mean, some of them are people exactly [who] I would’ve picked,” replied Paul who went on to state, “I will control one committee and that committee I pledge to get ’em through as quickly as possible.”

In lauding Trump’s nominees, the senator rattled off some of his favorites as he said, “Marty Makary at FDA, Jay Bhattacharya at NIH, Bobby Kennedy, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard — I mean, just the list goes on and on — Pete Hegseth. Good people. And yes, the vast majority I will support. On day one we’ll try to get Kristi Noem through the Department of Homeland Security; Russ Vought for OMB — we’re gonna work hard to get — I think in the first week you’ll have a half a dozen of them approved in the first week.”

For the 119th Congress, Paul was selected as the current ranking member to chair the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs when the Republican Party’s majority began.

That committee held oversight authority for DHS as well a number of agencies with homeland security concerns and government functions like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), United States Secret Service and United States Postal Service.

Paul’s commitment to seeing the Trump agenda through even had him reminding that there were options remaining on the table to shake up Washington, D.C.

This included suggesting that the next speaker of the House not only be someone other than incumbent Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), but be someone outside of the swamp altogether.

“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” he wrote on X Thursday. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk…think about it…nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds).”

On that suggestion, Paul admitted it “might have been a little tongue-in-cheek,” while crediting the issues that Musk had helped bring attention to like wasteful spending.

The legislator’s commitment to curbing government waste found him one of the 10 GOP senators who opposed the trimmed spending appropriations bill alongside independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. The rest were Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Mike Lee of Utah, Jim Risch of Idaho, Mitt Romney of Utah and Eric Schmitt of Missouri.

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