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White House sends Senate twenty-two nominations and one withdrawal

The White House sent the Senate twenty-two nominations for judges, ambassadors and agency posts, and withdrew the nomination of David MacNeil as a Federal…

--- The context --- The White House sent the Senate a broad slate to fill vacancies in federal courts, embassies and executive agencies. The official list totals twenty-two nominations and 1 withdrawal, by a direct count of every name and post. Post by post, the vacancies arose from retirements, resignations or expired terms. --- The facts --- The judicial names are Philip Lawrence Aubart for district judge in the Middle District of North Carolina, Gregory Todd Butler for circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit, Joseph Patrick Falvey for the Northern District of Indiana, Eric James Hamilton for the District of Nebraska and Brian S. Meyers for the Eastern District of North Carolina. They are joined by three associate judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for fifteen years: Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez, Roman Marian Chaban and Eric Sebastian Glover. For embassies, the list proposes Natalie Baker for Pakistan, Jeffrey Colyer for the United Arab Emirates, Benita Gunn for Burundi, Cynthia Kierscht for Senegal and, concurrently without additional compensation, for Guinea-Bissau, Ian McCary for Mali and Christy McCormick for North Macedonia. Baker, Kierscht and McCary are career members of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor. Other posts include Toby Deen as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy, Michael LoSapio as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Christopher Mufarrige as a Federal Trade Commissioner for seven years from September 26, 2026. --- The positions --- The White House position is the one expressed by the submission itself: to propose specific names for each vacancy and place them before the confirmation process, with no additional statements in the list. The position of the process is equally clear: no one holds the post yet by this submission alone, because each nomination requires Senate proceedings and a vote. --- What remains unknown --- What remains unknown is the Senate schedule for hearings and votes and the outcome of each confirmation. The slate also includes Arthur Kleinschmidt as Assistant Attorney General, Gary Lawkowski as General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Arthur Miller as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Loren Smith, Jr., as Assistant Secretary of Transportation and Matthew Zandi at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission until July 1, 2031. The withdrawal is the nomination of David MacNeil, of Florida, as a Federal Trade Commissioner, sent on January 13, 2026. --- Unanswered questions --- In what order will the Senate examine a slate that mixes judges, ambassadors and agency officials? How long will judicial vacancies take to fill compared with diplomatic and technical ones? Will each name be voted on separately or will agreements speed up part of the list? --- EPM analysis --- The slate can be read as a map of operational priorities: federal justice, foreign representation and sensitive areas such as energy, cybersecurity, trade and intelligence. By grouping twenty-two nominations, the White House hands the Senate a multiple decision requiring scrutiny name by name. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, this slate shows that governing also means filling on time the posts that sustain justice, diplomacy and security without leaving prolonged vacancies that weaken the State. The value of the list lies in its breadth and in mixing the judiciary, embassies and technical agencies in a single verifiable submission. The Senate must now examine each name rigorously, without turning confirmation into an automatic formality or into a permanent blockade that paralyzes functions essential to citizens.
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