DiehardHeelFan
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Through early morning fog I see, visions of the things to be
Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda
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If true, we should buy stock in green coffee beans. And maybe beer enemas.
CFordUNC
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Yeah, I’ve got to say that one went right over my head without needing to do some googling hahaha
milom98
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Well, that would be Duffy's wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, so still very Puck adjacent.
HeelInTheOzarks
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This kinda fits here cause the people missing votes are Vance, Rubio etc…
Basically the Dems are pushing through some judges because Republicans are missing votes. Some to go to the SpaceX launch even…
Basically the Dems are pushing through some judges because Republicans are missing votes. Some to go to the SpaceX launch even…
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Wow. I did not know that.
JCTarheel82
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Amusing article.
Like most Pub politicians, Tillis has a boner for obstruction and isn't dealing well with blue balls.
Kennedy is whining that the judicial nominees are unqualified but will almost certainly rubber stamp the most corrupt, immoral, unqualified Presidential Cabinet in history when Trump takes office.
BlooVooDoo
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Linda McMahon is Trump’s pick for Education.
Milk and Cookies
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Co-founder of the WWE leading our education policy
EyeballKid
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To be fair, the whole idea is to neuter/kill off the Department of Education. So it makes sense to fill the leadership with someone like her.
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She’s a product of North Carolina Public Schools and a university that is now part of the University of North Carolina System (though it was not part of the System at the time she attended the school).
Awinisawin
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Train wreck imminent. Keep watching
At the time she attended East Carolina, wasn’t “the system” UNC, ncsulol, and UNC Women’s College?
All those “other” institutions, including NCCU and NC A&T, existed.
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“… In calls with foreign heads of state, Trump has cut out the State Department, its secure lines and its official interpreters.
… he’s so far declined to let the Federal Bureau of Investigation check forpotential red flags and security threats to guard against espionage — instead relying on private campaign lawyers for some appointees and doing no vetting at all for others.
Trump’s transition team is considering moving on his first day in office to give those appointees blanket security clearances, according to people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private conversations.…”
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“… Trump’s transition teams cannot participate in national security briefings, enter federal agencies or speak with employees, and can’t receive formal briefings about ongoing operations and projects. (Trump has begun receiving intelligence briefings.) The transition team cannot use secure federal email servers to communicate (a particular concern, security experts said, after the Trump campaign was hacked by Iran).
Unless Trump signs the pledges, his transition team will forgo about $7 million in federal funding set aside for the inauguration, leaving the event funded by private donors who do not need to be disclosed and do not have to abide by a $5,000 cap on individual donations.
It is also unclear if Trump plans to require his nominees to submit to separate ethics reviews required by the Office of Government Ethics. If not, once his appointees are in the job, the office will be unable to ensure they divest from companies or other entities to avoid potential conflicts.
“Their conflicts of interest will leave them vulnerable to outside influences, potentially including foreign powers,” said Walter Shaub, who led the office from 2013 to 2017. …”
“… Trump’s transition teams cannot participate in national security briefings, enter federal agencies or speak with employees, and can’t receive formal briefings about ongoing operations and projects. (Trump has begun receiving intelligence briefings.) The transition team cannot use secure federal email servers to communicate (a particular concern, security experts said, after the Trump campaign was hacked by Iran).
Unless Trump signs the pledges, his transition team will forgo about $7 million in federal funding set aside for the inauguration, leaving the event funded by private donors who do not need to be disclosed and do not have to abide by a $5,000 cap on individual donations.
It is also unclear if Trump plans to require his nominees to submit to separate ethics reviews required by the Office of Government Ethics. If not, once his appointees are in the job, the office will be unable to ensure they divest from companies or other entities to avoid potential conflicts.
“Their conflicts of interest will leave them vulnerable to outside influences, potentially including foreign powers,” said Walter Shaub, who led the office from 2013 to 2017. …”
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“… Trump’s calls have raised alarms from some foreign policy experts — particularly his call with Vladimir Putin.
He advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington’s sizable military presence in Europe, as The Washington Post reported.
The absence of an official transcript of the exchange already has created a challenge for Trump, said Daniel Fried, a retired diplomat now at the Atlantic Council think tank, because the Kremlin quickly denied that the call had taken place.
“It would be a lot easier for the Trump team if he were able to say that the Russia team was lying,” said Fried, who played key roles in designing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union.
“So there’s a cost to doing it this way. People are scratching their heads and saying, ‘Somebody’s lying.’”
Trump’s transition team has also dispensed with the FBI’s role, in place since before World War II, in performing the background checks that form the backbone of security clearances for political appointees. By law these checks must be performed by federal employees, not private contractors with no agency oversight, to ensure that key decisions affecting public trust are made by “accountable government officials,” according to federal statute.
… Thus far, Trump has left the job of vetting candidates to Stanley Woodward, a Palm Beach lawyer on his campaign who has represented several Jan. 6 rioters and Trump associates caught up in the classified documents case, according to transition staff who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the decision.
… Trump advisers have begun discussing an executive order that would award clearances to Trump appointees on Day 1, without the customary checks, people familiar with the matter said. Trump resented in his first term how long it took for some people — particularly his family members — to get clearances, and what a “mess it became publicly,” a person who talked to him about it said.
… “There is a theme here,” Van Hollen said of Trump’s unfolding transition. “He is getting rid of all checks on executive power that are in the system.”….
“It’s an end run around constitutional design,” the senator said. “We have tools in the confirmation process to make sure nominees get vetted. What he’s asking Republicans to do is make him king.” …”
“… Trump’s calls have raised alarms from some foreign policy experts — particularly his call with Vladimir Putin.
He advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington’s sizable military presence in Europe, as The Washington Post reported.
The absence of an official transcript of the exchange already has created a challenge for Trump, said Daniel Fried, a retired diplomat now at the Atlantic Council think tank, because the Kremlin quickly denied that the call had taken place.
“It would be a lot easier for the Trump team if he were able to say that the Russia team was lying,” said Fried, who played key roles in designing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union.
“So there’s a cost to doing it this way. People are scratching their heads and saying, ‘Somebody’s lying.’”
Trump’s transition team has also dispensed with the FBI’s role, in place since before World War II, in performing the background checks that form the backbone of security clearances for political appointees. By law these checks must be performed by federal employees, not private contractors with no agency oversight, to ensure that key decisions affecting public trust are made by “accountable government officials,” according to federal statute.
… Thus far, Trump has left the job of vetting candidates to Stanley Woodward, a Palm Beach lawyer on his campaign who has represented several Jan. 6 rioters and Trump associates caught up in the classified documents case, according to transition staff who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the decision.
… Trump advisers have begun discussing an executive order that would award clearances to Trump appointees on Day 1, without the customary checks, people familiar with the matter said. Trump resented in his first term how long it took for some people — particularly his family members — to get clearances, and what a “mess it became publicly,” a person who talked to him about it said.
… “There is a theme here,” Van Hollen said of Trump’s unfolding transition. “He is getting rid of all checks on executive power that are in the system.”….
“It’s an end run around constitutional design,” the senator said. “We have tools in the confirmation process to make sure nominees get vetted. What he’s asking Republicans to do is make him king.” …”
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How is any of this even allowed to happen? It seems to me that if you don’t agree to be vetted (or if you raise red flags in the vetting process) you shouldn’t get the job. This is kind of important.
