Democrats' furor over 'unqualified' Trump nominees puts Biden's staffing decisions back in the spotlight

Conservatives are pushing backmost aft Democrats person criticized President-elect Trump’s Cabinet appointments for not being "qualified" by pointing to respective examples of members of the Biden-Harris medication and run having questionable qualifications for their roles.

In caller days, Democrats successful Congress and successful the media person blasted Trump Cabinet nominees implicit their qualifications, including combat seasoned Pete Hegseth arsenic caput of defense; South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem arsenic caput of homeland security; Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., arsenic lawyer general; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. arsenic caput of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), among others. 

"Three caller Trump nominees - Gaetz, Hegseth, and Gabbard - are acold little qualified than Senate confirmation rejects similar Bork, Tower, and Mier," Harvard Professor Lawrence Summers, who served successful the Clinton and Obama administrations, posted connected X. "I anticipation that the Senate volition bash its duty."

"Pete Hegseth is not remotely qualified to beryllium Secretary of Defense," Dem. Rep. Jason Crow posted connected X.

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President-elect Trump, left, and President Biden shingle hands during a gathering successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"[Pete Hegseth] is not qualified to beryllium the Secretary of Defense. I pb the Senate subject unit panel. All 3 of my brothers served successful uniform," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said, omitting his decades-long subject career. "I respect each 1 of our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s prime volition marque america little harmless and indispensable beryllium rejected."

Democrats person besides slammed Trump for nominating Kennedy arsenic his HHS caput contempt a resurfaced Politico report revealing that Kennedy was being considered by Obama for Environmental Protection Agency during his 2008 statesmanlike transition.

Since taking bureau successful 2021, Biden has faced disapproval from Republicans implicit respective members of his medication who were believed to beryllium lacking cardinal attributes needed to execute the duties they were assigned successful summation to scandals. 

"The Democrats are melting down implicit Trump‘s furniture picks truthful far, but they had nary occupation with ‘Mayor Pete’ being appointed Secretary of Transportation with nary anterior qualifications," Link Lauren, blimpish influencer and governmental commentator, who served arsenic elder advisor to the Kennedy campaign, told Fox News Digital. 

"Trump won the fashionable vote, the electoral college, the House and the Senate. That is simply a mandate from the American radical that they privation systemic change. I recognize immoderate of Trump‘s appointees person garnered mixed reactions — adjacent from Republicans. But let’s springiness Trump’s appointees a chance, past verify successful clip that they are doing a large job."

Buttigieg was appointed Biden’s proscription caput aft serving arsenic the politician of South Bend, Indiana, for 8 years, with immoderate questioning astatine the clip whether helium had capable related acquisition for the job. Since taking office, Republicans have amplified those concerns aft a bid of perceived missteps from Buttigieg, including the fallout from the proviso concatenation crises and the devastating bid derailment successful East Palestine, Ohio.

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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visits a shipping terminal astatine the Honmoku pier successful Yokohama, Japan, connected June 19, 2023. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Take Secretary Buttigieg — his lone qualifications for the occupation was a failed statesmanlike run and clip spent arsenic a university-town mayor," Bradley Devlin, Politics Editor astatine The Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital. "From East Palestine to electrical chargers, it hasn’t gone good for ‘Mayor Pete,’ but Buttigieg has retained his occupation due to the fact that he’s remained loyal to the Biden administration’s attempted extremist vigor and proscription policies."

Biden's nationalist information adviser, Jake Sullivan, who worked arsenic a lawyer earlier serving arsenic counsel to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., past an advisor to erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, roseate done the ranks into high-profile positions successful the Obama medication but has been maligned arsenic unqualified by Republicans implicit a series of nationalist information blunders that occurred during his tenure, including the botched Afghanistan withdrawal and falsely claiming that the "Middle East portion is quieter contiguous than it has been successful 2 decades" days earlier Hamas killed astatine slightest 1,200 Israelis successful a vicious attack.

Republicans criticized Sullivan's relation arsenic Biden's nationalist information adviser, the youngest successful history, owed to his erstwhile pushing of the "Russia collusion hoax" arsenic portion of the Clinton run and his relation successful her State Department bureau amid the Benghazi cover-up.

National information advisor Jake Sullivan gestures during a property league astatine the U.S. embassy successful Beijing connected Aug. 29.  (Adek Berry/AFP via Getty Images)

Several different Biden officials person faced heated disapproval implicit their qualifications successful caller years, including former elder Department of Energy authoritative Sam Brinton, who identifies arsenic nonbinary and was arrested aggregate times for baggage theft astatine airports.

Eric Lipka, who served arsenic a lawman property caput connected the Biden-Harris campaign, sparked controversy earlier this twelvemonth implicit his resistance queen change ego "Erotica the Drag Queen."

Tyler Cherry, who worked successful some the Biden White House and the Department of Interior, was hired and promoted contempt respective societal media posts comparing constabulary to "slave patrols," promoting conspiracies astir Russia colluding with Trump and supporting the anti-Israel movement.

Sam Brinton attends The Trevor Project's TrevorLIVE LA 2019 astatine the Beverly Hilton Hotel successful Beverly Hills, California, connected Nov. 17, 2019. (Tasia Wells/Getty Images for The Trevor Project)

Interior Department spokesperson Tyler Cherry was appointed to the relation successful 2021. (Getty Images)

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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., erstwhile asked connected Thursday astir the contention surrounding Trump’s assignment of Gaetz, held up a photo of adjunct HHS Secretary Rachel Levine and Brinton asked, "Did you inquire Democratic senators astir this?"

Levine, the archetypal openly transgender national authoritative to beryllium confirmed by the Senate, has faced disapproval from Republicans connected assorted issues specified as sex alteration surgeries for minors and was labeled by a New York Post op-ed arsenic "America’s No.1 sex extremist."

Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine says earliest memories were of transgenderism. (Getty | Fox News Digital)

Dozens of scientists from universities and biology groups pushed for the removal of the caput of Biden’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, claiming she lacked the acquisition inheritance required to tally the bureau contempt securing Senate confirmation.

"Liberals and progressives bemoaning these nominees’ alleged deficiency of qualifications are simply looking to support the strategy they created — a authorities of, by and for the ‘experts’ — and that benefits them politically," Devlin told Fox News Digital.

"This tin beryllium seen good beyond Biden’s furniture picks, too. For example, the archetypal 10 Biden-appointed appellate judges averaged simply 14 authored opinions each from the bench. Trump’s archetypal 12 appellate judges, meanwhile, had averaged 34 implicit a akin clip play — doubly arsenic galore arsenic Biden’s nominees."

In 2023, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., blasted the qualifications of Biden’s judicial appointments saying successful a press release, "The American radical merit the champion and brightest. The Democrats are producing… thing else."

"Xavier Becerra, HHS - not a doctor, he’s a lawyer, ex-attorney wide of California Jared Bernstein, Chair of Council of Economic Advisors - not an economist, Bachelor’s grade successful music, masters successful sociology," FOX Business Evening Edit anchor Liz McDonald posted connected X.

President Biden, right, meets with President-elect Trump successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

"Jennifer Granholm, Energy Secy - nary vigor background, Michigan Governor Gina Raimondo, Commerce Secretary - No commercialized background, Gov of Rhode Island Deb Haaland, Interior Secy - New Mexico Congressman," she continued.

Conservative vigor big and Fox News big Mark Levin pointed to Democratic vice statesmanlike campaigner Tim Walz arsenic grounds that Democrats person been hypocritical connected the contented of furniture qualifications. 

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"The Democrat Party nominated and supported Tim Walz for vice president," Levin posted connected X.

"I don't privation to perceive from that enactment oregon its media that immoderate of the Trump nominees are unqualified for their posts. They person demonstrated that they person nary standards astatine each erstwhile it comes to selecting adjacent a vice-presidential candidate. Every Trump nominee has a coagulated record. Perspective is precise important."

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.