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Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson is playing politics and holding up a key national security nominee,
Alejandro Mayorkas to be Secretary of Homeland Security. Historically, DHS secretaries are among the first to be confirmed in a new administration, and in 2009 and 2017 they were confirmed along bipartisan lines.
In 2016, Johnson urged Democrats to swiftly confirm President Trump’s selection for Homeland Security Secretary because of the importance of the position to national security:
Senator Johnson in 2016: “On a bipartisan basis we realize that the administration needs to start functioning, so I certainly hope that Democrats don’t play games with the national security, economic security of America by playing games with these nominations”
convinced broke jay carney yesterday with your rapid fire line of questioning, ed? andrea, good to see you. what an intense day here. jay carney has been fielding tough questions about eric shinseki for weeks. they are both gone. let s start with the less surprising departure perhaps. shinseki. it turns out the president decided not to fire him instead he said he reeleluctantl lly ac his resignation. he said he had no plans to step down and this morning in washington gave a speech to a homeless veterans group and laid out a plan of action and sounded like he thought he would be sticking around. democrats close to the white house tell me they basically think since administration officials put out the word over the last 24 hours the president lost confidence, they were sending a signal to resign, spare the president the difficult task of firing a war hero. somebody wounded in vietnam. questions lingering, though, as shinseki goes about the president s own leadership style sin
convinced broke jay carney yesterday with your rapid fire line of questioning, ed? andrea, good to see you. what an intense day here. jay carney has been fielding tough questions about eric shinseki for weeks. they are both gone. let s start with the less surprising departure perhaps. shinseki. it turns out the president decided not to fire him instead he said he reeleluctantl lly ac his resignation. he said he had no plans to step down and this morning in washington gave a speech to a homeless veterans group and laid out a plan of action and sounded like he thought he would be sticking around. democrats close to the white house tell me they basically think since administration officials put out the word over the last 24 hours the president lost confidence, they were sending a signal to resign, spare the president the difficult task of firing a war hero. somebody wounded in vietnam. questions lingering, though, as shinseki goes about the president s own leadership style sin
apology to the people i most care about, and that is the veterans of this great country. this morning president obama s says this morning s conversation with general shinseki would be a tough one. i ll have a serious conversation with him about whether he thinks that, you know, he is prepared and has the capacity to take on the job of fixing it, because i don t want any veteran to not be getting the kind of services they deserve. is joining me now is peter alexander, and now congresswoman tammy duckworth, disabled iraq vet and former v.a. department official has joined the chorus saying that general shinseki should step the down. yes, tamron. that is right. this chorus is a lot louder over the course of the last 24 hours or so and more than 110 members of congress and notably a lot of them are senate democrats included and at least 11 senate democrats are on board as well saying that eric shinseki needs to go. a lot of the democrats are facing re-election, and so it i
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