Senate Republicans confirmed four dozen of President Trump’s nominees Thursday, the first tranche of his stalled choices to get over the finish line after the GOP changed the chamber’s rules last week to break a months-long blockade put up by the Democrats.

After weeks of warnings, Republicans late last week pulled the trigger on the “nuclear option,” allowing lawmakers to confirm lower-level nominees en bloc. That led to Thursday, when the Senate voted 51-47 to cement 48 nominees into place.

“Republicans have fixed a broken process and restored the Senate precedent that applied to previous presidents — and that is allowing … a majority of a president’s nominees to be confirmed expeditiously,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on the floor.

“Today is the first slate of nom

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