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Arkansas Granny

(31,507 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 07:58 AM Jan 2017

State Dept. Officials Should Quit if They Disagree With Trump,

White House Warns


Department are circulating a so-called dissent cable, which says that Mr. Trump’s executive order closing the nation’s doors to more than 200 million people with the intention of weeding out a handful of would-be terrorists will not make the nation safer, and might instead deepen the threat.

“These career bureaucrats have a problem with it?” Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told reporters. “They should either get with the program or they can go.”

It was yet another stark confrontation between the new president, who is moving swiftly to upend years of policies, and a federal bureaucracy still struggling with the jolting change of power in Washington. There is open hostility to Mr. Trump’s ideas in some pockets of the government, and deep frustration among those enforcing the visa ban that the White House announced the order without warning or consulting them.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/us/politics/sean-spicer-state-dept-travel-ban.html


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State Dept. Officials Should Quit if They Disagree With Trump, (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Jan 2017 OP
Nope Sean JustAnotherGen Jan 2017 #1
exactly annabanana Jan 2017 #2
Yep, prove you don't need any diplomats nor ambassadors. You don't need sinkingfeeling Jan 2017 #3

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
2. exactly
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 09:05 AM
Jan 2017

That they are actively making America more vulnerable MUST be laid at their feet.

Now.

Loudly and clearly.

sinkingfeeling

(51,438 posts)
3. Yep, prove you don't need any diplomats nor ambassadors. You don't need
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:12 AM
Jan 2017

to know what's going on in the rest of the world. That's, like, so great for national security!

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