(NewsNation) — Worried astir Vice President Kamala Harris perchance facing a Republican-controlled Senate if she wins the White House, 2 Democratic strategists archer NewsNation that senators are discussing an exigency program to o.k. her Cabinet during a December Senate session. 

The Senate is presently controlled by the Democrats, but lawmakers successful the enactment are facing an "increasingly pugnacious road" to keeping it this way, NewsNation spouse The Hill reports.

Democrats look a hard Senate map, with aggregate incumbents successful solidly GOP territory. Republican candidates successful Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are rapidly closing the gap, The Hill reports, and "blue wall" states are present each deemed "toss-ups" by Cook Political Report.

To lick this contented for Democrats, strategists told NewsNation that the astir utmost program is for existent Democratic President Joe Biden's Cabinet to resign during his lame-duck Senate session. Biden would past name Harris' picks, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would past corroborate the caller Cabinet with his existent 51/49 Senate.

One source, however, conceded that this mightiness not beryllium possible. At that point, the root said, Harris would person to determine who successful Biden's Cabinet she would privation to support on. Questions besides stay astir whether Harris, if she beats Republican erstwhile president Donald Trump, could make a Cabinet database and vet her appointees earlier a caller Senate comes in.

“Sen. Schumer is focused connected winning a Democratic bulk successful the Senate that volition enactment to corroborate aboriginal President Kamala Harris’s Cabinet," a spokesperson for the New York Democrat said successful a statement.