Republican senators said the White House is aware Moore lacks the votes for Senate confirmation, and they expect either him to withdraw or the White House to cancel his pending nomination.
By Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow May 1 at 6:19 PM Stephen Moore’s prospects of getting confirmed to the Federal Reserve Board grew dimmer Wednesday as Trump administration officials began to acknowledge privately he does not have the votes and Republican senators indicated the ensuing drama over Moore’s pending nomination would end soon.
“I think there will be probably some more information about that nomination in the next day or so,” Thune said. “I think he’s gotten enough feedback from the people up here that his nomination is in trouble.”Thune, the party’s chief vote-counter in the Senate, said he could not predict what Moore or the administration ultimately decides on his pending nomination.
Moore has come under a firestorm of criticism for his past writings and comments, in which he argued there would be societal problems if men were not the family breadwinners, complained about women in sports and derided women in combat. He now explains them as “humor columns” and has said he regrets having written them.
Moore says he has now paid the tax lien and that it was based on “about $7,000 of tax underpayment.” He and his wife are working to get the IRS to return the rest of the money they believe they are owed. When it became clear that Cain’s prospects for Senate confirmation had evaporated several weeks ago, White House officials largely remained quiet on the issue and let Cain withdraw from consideration on his own terms several days later.
In a closed-door party lunch Tuesday, Sen. Richard C. Shelby ticked off the litany of issues plaguing Moore, including the tax payments, child support and his columns about women, and noted that Senate Republicans could get through to confirmation, but that it will be tough, according to two senators in attendance.
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