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The Senate on Thursday confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a single vote, the first use of new Republican-backed rules designed to speed up the confirmation process and clear a backlog of executive branch appointments. The chamber voted 51-47 along party lines to approve the group of nominees, …

Senate Republicans on Thursday detonated the so-called “nuclear option” to change chamber rules on a party-line vote, paving the way for President Donald Trump to accelerate confirmation of his executive branch nominees. The 53-45 vote alters long-standing Senate procedure by allowing unlimited numbers of nominees to be confirmed en bloc, …