The United States Senate took a major step on Thursday toward confirming a massive slate of President Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees, voting 51-46 to invoke cloture on 49 appointees bundled together under Senate Resolution 690.
The package includes U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Marshals, ambassadors, and senior officials across the Departments of Defense, State, Transportation, Commerce, and Energy, among other agencies. It represents one of the largest single-vote nominee advances in recent memory.
Eric Daugherty flagged the development on X, noting the significance of moving 49 Trump appointees forward “in one fell swoop.” The official Senate Cloakroom account confirmed the 51-46 cloture result shortly before Daugherty’s post started spreading.
Senate Resolution 690 authorized en bloc consideration of all 49 nominations listed on the Executive Calendar. The resolution cleared an earlier cloture vote on April 30 by a vote of 51-46 and was formally adopted on May 11 in a 46-45 vote, with nine senators not voting.
The official GovInfo text shows the package includes Andrew Benson for U.S. Attorney for Maine, William Boyle for U.S. Attorney for Eastern North Carolina, Kevin Holmes for U.S. Attorney for Western Arkansas, Brian David Miller for U.S. Attorney for Middle Pennsylvania, Richard Price for U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri, and Darin Smith for U.S. Attorney for Wyoming. Additional nominees cover Middle Alabama, Western Louisiana, Northern Texas, Central Illinois, Utah, Northern Alabama, and Middle North Carolina for U.S. Attorneys; Northern Iowa, South Dakota, Maine, Western Louisiana, Eastern Missouri, Southern Florida, Montana, and Minnesota for U.S. Marshals; and senior administration, ambassadorial, transportation, energy, defense, commerce, development bank, and regulatory officials.
These positions are not ceremonial. U.S. Attorneys serve as chief federal prosecutors in their districts, leading enforcement of federal criminal and civil law and playing a central role in implementing the administration’s priorities on issues such as illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and violent crime. U.S. Marshals handle fugitive operations, prisoner transport, witness security, and asset forfeiture.
The Senate roll call vote for S.Res.690, held May 11, 2026, recorded 46 yeas to 45 nays with nine senators not voting. All recorded yeas were Republicans, while the nays included Democrats and independents who caucus with Democrats. Several Republicans did not vote, including Bill Hagerty, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Ashley Moody, Lisa Murkowski, Pete Ricketts, and Jim Risch.
The political split was clear: every Democrat and Democrat-aligned independent who voted opposed the package structure. Republicans carried it.
This move addresses a persistent pressure point in Trump’s second term—the nominee backlog. A president can set priorities and demand action but requires confirmed officials to prosecute cases, manage federal districts, operate marshals offices, represent the United States overseas, and execute agency policy.
The cloture vote does not finalize confirmations but limits remaining debate and sets up the final confirmation stage. Without the en bloc mechanism, each nominee could have consumed separate floor time, creating a slow-motion blockade for basic staffing.
By grouping the nominees under S.Res.690, Senate Republicans cleared the hardest procedural hurdle, moving dozens of Trump appointees closer to final confirmation. Eric Daugherty emphasized that getting these officials fully confirmed is critical: “The law-and-order agenda does not run on speeches alone. It runs through U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Marshals, agency leaders, and executive branch officials who are actually in the job.”
