"What's been unfortunate is that all I asked of my colleague Sen. Schumer was to treat President Trump the same we treated President Obama," McConnell said. | Getty McConnell predicts Senate will confirm Trump's entire Cabinet

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted on Sunday that Republicans will secure the votes needed to confirm President Donald Trump's entire Cabinet.

"I believe we'll be able to confirm the president's entire Cabinet," the Kentucky Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "There's great enthusiasm."


The Senate has already confirmed two retired Marine generals, James Mattis as defense secretary and John Kelly as homeland security secretary, and is expected to confirm Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) to be CIA director on Monday.

Most nominees for the top jobs in the new Trump administration are seen as locks for confirmation, though Trump's pick for secretary of state, former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson, has drawn skepticism from a handful of Senate Republicans. But McConnell said he was nonetheless confident that all the Cabinet nominees would be confirmed.

Instead, McConnell slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and his fellow Democrats for slow-walking Trump's Cabinet picks.

"What's been unfortunate is that all I asked of my colleague Sen. Schumer was to treat President Trump the same we treated President Obama," McConnell said, citing the delay in Pompeo's confirmation vote.

"They even delayed the CIA [director] ... until Monday for some inexplicable reason," he added.