“I can't think of any other instance in history of this committee where a president sends a nominee up, and then in a bipartisan way, we say we really want to move heaven and earth to get this nominee moving quickly because of the importance of the position, and then the president decided that the Senate was moving too fast on his own nominee, and holds that nominee,”

Mark Warner · said 2026-07-15 · reported 2026-07-15

Warner criticized Trump for initially sabotaging the Senate's effort to move Clayton's nomination forward quickly.