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BumRushDaShow

(165,754 posts) Wed Jul 2, 2025, 04:45 PM Jul 2025

Trump nominates 4 to Tennessee Valley Authority board after firing Biden picks

Source: WPLN/NPR Nashville, TN/AP

July 2, 2025

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced four nominees for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board, which for months has not had enough members to take many actions because Trump fired some of former President Joe Biden’s picks.

TVA is the nation’s largest public utility and provides power to more than 10 million people across seven southern states.

The White House said Trump’s nominees for the federal utility are Tennesseans Lee Beaman, Mitch Graves and Jeff Hagood; and Randall Jones of Alabama. The selections follow Trump’s firing of three Biden-nominated board members since late March. The board normally has nine members and requires five to make a quorum. It currently has three.

Trump’s picks would not be seated until the U.S. Senate confirms them. Without a quorum, TVA’s board can take actions needed for ongoing operations but cannot jump into new areas of activity, start new programs or change the utility’s existing direction.

Read more: https://wpln.org/post/trump-nominates-4-to-tennessee-valley-authority-board-after-firing-biden-picks/

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143386641
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143430775

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Trump nominates 4 to Tennessee Valley Authority board after firing Biden picks (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jul 2025 OP

This will become the norm. maxsolomon Jul 2025 #1

What's their agenda? not fooled Jul 2025 #2

maxsolomon

(38,193 posts)

1. This will become the norm.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:24 PM

Jul 2025

The presidency changes party, and all political appointees will be purged.

President Newsom will probably hand out pink slips for Trumpists on Day One, and I'll applaud.

not fooled

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2. What's their agenda?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:23 PM

Jul 2025

Coal and nuclear.

from the above link; bolding mine:

...In a March 20 guest column, Tennessee’s two Republican U.S. senators urged TVA officials to opt for “an interim CEO trusted by the president” before hiring someone long-term. They wrote that studies and hurdles under the TVA board were bogging down a project that seeks to build a small modular nuclear reactor...

...On March 31, the five remaining board members picked TVA’s executive vice president and chief operating officer Don Moul to become the new CEO. Moul has since called for reevaluating the lifespan of TVA’s fleet of coal plants. The utility has been planning to retire the last of them by 2035. But Trump has signed executive orders aimed at boosting the coal industry...

...This weekend, a guest column by Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee called for a “a new board and a clear, aggressive mission” to further Trump’s goal of quadrupling domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years. Trump signed executive orders in May to speed up the development.

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