Is the struggle to confirm Trump's nominees real orjust a show?

CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who has been nominated to lead the State Department, and CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, tapped to be Pompeo’s successor as spy chief, have particularly stiff headwinds in the face of GOP opposition and are quietly meeting with potential swing votes.

White House physician Ronny Jackson, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, is also scheduled to get a committee hearing next week, on April 25. He’s certain to face questions about his lack of experience in running a large bureaucratic organization like the VA.

Senators say they expect GOP leadership to bring Pompeo’s nomination to the floor first, even if he isn’t able to win a favorable recommendation from the Foreign Relations Committee.

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It appears increasingly unlikely that Pompeo will be able to get majority support from the Foreign Relations panel, where Republicans have a one-seat advantage, because GOP Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) opposes him.

To do so he would need to win over at least one Democrat. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are the only two on the panel who supported him to be CIA director.

But Kaine announced he would oppose Pompeo to be the country’s top diplomat, saying he has “grave doubts about his anti-diplomacy disposition.”

  The Hill

But Trump secretly sent Pompeo to meet with Kim Jong Un. Surely that will change Kaine's and Shaheen's minds.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.