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US Navy joins Army, Marine Corps in having no Senate-confirmed leader, in historic first (www.reuters.com)
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WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Monday became the third branch of the military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time in history, as a Republican senator continues to block military nominations.

Retiring Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday gave up command on Monday. The Navy, Army and Marine Corps are now all without a confirmed leader.

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[โ€“] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sure love it when the President can dissolve legislative branches until he gets the party that he wants.๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 1 year ago

You have a point in that, if that worked, a bad president could just throw insane nominations out and when none of them got confirmed go "oh look, guess you don't like my nominations, this is my power now."