Republicans own all of this.

We’ll get no help from him.

Except mike is our pence. mike will not do what pence did. Plain and Simple!

The House has no say in confirming presidential appointments.

The Senate has the advise and consent confirmation duty.

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I think that's where Johnson comes into play.

the adjournment powers of the president, forcing a recess of both chambers, and allowing for recess appointments, bypassing the Senate.

You'll find that power to the president in Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution. It's never been used before.

The article explains all this too.

why don’t they just adjourn themselves?

The process Whelan describes would involve the House introducing a resolution to adjourn both chambers for 10 days, the duration mandated in the 2014 National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning decision. If the Senate agreed, the recess would be effected and Trump could make his appointments. If it declined? Trump would rely on another part of the Constitution.

The president, Article II, Section 3 states, “may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses” — that is, the House and Senate — “or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.” So if the Senate doesn’t agree to adjourn, the theory goes, Trump could just adjourn them.

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The cascade of possibilities, then, looks like this. Gaetz endures an unquestionably rough set of hearings and is presented to the full Senate for confirmation. He gets it. Or, maybe, he comes up short in vote-counting and the Senate agrees to adjourn to allow Trump to appoint him anyway. (This saves some wavering Republicans from primary campaign ads targeting them for disloyalty to the president.) Maybe this even becomes the plan from the get-go, allowing Gaetz to skip the hearings in the first place. If the Senate won’t vote to adjourn (also a motion that can’t be filibustered), perhaps the dispute-between-the-branches mechanism is implemented.

that would be enough.

However, I would argue in that case it would be better for Democrats to agree to adjourn because the Adjournment Clause would allow him to adjourn congress for however long he chooses. He could force them to adjourn for a year.

Effectively, either way the appointments will happen, so we’d have to choose the least bad option.

The Senate could claim pro forma sessions, technically not adjourned, but I get the feeling MAGA members have anticipated that move, and Trump, using his power given by the Constitution, won't wait for that and will adjourn both chambers himself.

Once adjourned by the President, when Congress convenes again is at the president's discretion.

He would only need a day or two to sign all the recess appointments.

Course, he could just roll the dice to see how the senate votes on his nominees.

I don't know how this will play out.

But I don't put anything past Trump and his cohorts.

it's about not giving Trump the opportunity to adjourn Congress and make his recess appointments. All Johnson has to do is make sure there's no disagreement between the House and Senate on when to adjourn.

Confirmations come from the Senate.