The hearing focused on the departments implementation of the Student Loan Debt for forgiveness program. Its aimed at helping highly indebted students with loans that misrepresented graduate outcomes and potential salaries. Meeting on education and labor will come to order. I want to welcome everyone and note decorum is present. The oversight hearing from the department of educations implementation of the barr defense rule pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to chair and Ranking Members. This allows us to hear from witnesses sooner and provides all members time to ask questions. Id like to thank secretary betsy devos and thank her to hold enough time to allow all of the members present and have five minutes of questions pursuant to house rules. I am especially thankful pause in this chair i am exercising my prerogative to go last in the question order. So if she were to leave early, i wouldnt get to answer questions. I thank you for agreeing to stay with us the
Security and u. S. Politics news. It is unsettling that it is on this anniversary that were reporting on the consequences of there being no National Security advisor again. No president has ever had to fi hire four different National Security advisors in less than three years. But after President Trump fired his third one yesterday, or he resigned, or something, today what i guess has been the john bolton wing of the Trump White House started emptying out in the wake of boltons departure himself. Boltons assist at the National Security council was fired or left today. The two senior directors for Strategic Communication at the National Security council were also fired or left today. We are also following some emerging reports that some other National Security staff may be out, either fired or just leaving now that President Trump has shed his third National Security advisor. There is certainly no sign yet of who else might come in as trumps next National Security advisor. Amid speculat
signaled they were going to nominate steven menashe to a lifetime appointment to a court just one level below the supreme court everybody knew it was going to be controversial. this is somebody who is reportedly part of the immigration working group in the trump white house led by stephen miller. he has been coming up with their immigration policies. people started immediately turning up his lifetime of writing about, you know, the inferiority of islam and how offensive it was to him that matthew the matthew shepherd murder got so much attention, and the disgusting gyneowe centrists. these offensive women who advocate for sexual assault victims, and how there is nothing racist about white people holding a ghetto party and showing up in afro wigs and carrying fake guns. he is a peach. we reported on this law review article which is entitled