Over the past few months, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been reshaping the State Department with a series of staff reductions. Now, yet another top official has found himself being pushed out. The New York Times reported that Chief of Security Bill A. Miller was just forced out by Tillerson, and he joins a parade of dismissals and early retirements that has decimated the State Department’s senior ranks. These departures have brought about a new stage of Tillerson’s contentious relationship with much of his department’s staffers. This came a week after the Democratic members of the House Foreign Relations Committee wrote a letter to Tillerson citing “the exodus of more than 100 senior Foreign Service officers from the State Department since January,” as they expressed concern about “what appears to be the intentional hollowing-out of our senior diplomatic ranks.” Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, sent a si...
The state will welcome illegal aliens that are seeking protection from federal authorities. But this may not work out as Gov. Jerry Brown intended. The acting director for Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE), Thomas Homan, said something on the topic when asked about Brown’s move to defy the President’s tough stance on immigration, and Governor “Moonbeam” isn’t going to be happy about it. Homan said that Brown needs to hang on tight because the federal government isn’t going to let California’s governor dictate the federal law. According to our source, America’s Freedom Fighters , Hooman appeared on Neil Cavuto’s show on Fox and the host said that Governor “Moonbeam” claims the law will protect illegal aliens living in the shadows of our society from law enforcement determined to yank them out of there. “I think it’s terrible,” he said before adding that Brown’s move was purely political. “If Brown thinks he is protecting the community, he’s doing quite the opp...
With much of the country wringing its hands over Donald Trump, allow me to be the bearer of some good news: Several good things are happening to the American systemof government as a result of his presidency. Admittedly, I am turning to the somewhat perverse law of unintended consequences to find these, but systems are retooling to protect themselves from President Trump and the result could be very healthy, both now and in the long run. First, Congress is reawakening to its leadership role in policy-making and legislating. The founders understood Congress to be the “first” of the three branches, worrying whether there would be sufficient “energy” in the executive, while acknowledging that the judiciary, as Alexander Hamilton put it, would be “the least dangerous branch.” All of that has been turned on its head, with the modern presidency since Franklin Roosevelt vying with the courts for first place, while Congress keeps giving up its powers and is now...
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