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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev. listens at right as Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Top Senate Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has vowed to undermine and slow down the confirmation process of eight of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, the New York Democrat said Sunday.
According to the Washington Post, Schumer — the incoming Senate Minority Leader — disclosed the information recently to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
According to the Post, Schumer and Senate Democrats plans to target:
"Any attempt by Republicans to have a series of rushed, truncated hearings before Inauguration Day and before the Congress and public have adequate information on all of them is something Democrats will vehemently resist," Schumer said in a statement, according to the Post.
"If Republicans think they can quickly jam through a whole slate of nominees without a fair hearing process, they’re sorely mistaken," he went on to say, adding that Trump is "attempting to fill his rigged cabinet with nominees that would break key campaign promises and have made billions off the industries they’d be tasked with regulating."
Schumer also said that he is demanding at least two days of hearings per nominee and that no more than two nominees will have hearings in the same week.
Noticeably absent from Schumer's list is Retired Gen. James Mattis, Trump's nominee for defense secretary, who Trump has said he wants confirmed as quickly as possible.
Congress reconvenes this week and will begin hearings. Tillerson and Sessions are likely to be the first two nominees to receive hearings.