Chuck Schumer called on the nation’s 74 federal inspectors general (IGs) to protect whistleblowers from retaliation as President Donald Trump began purging Obama-era holdovers and other officials from his National Security Council (NSC).
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted Senate Democrats on Wednesday for refusing to confirm more than 65 of President Donald Trump’s nominees for senior positions at the State Department.
Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday regarding the Trump administration’s putting more sanctions on North Korea and whether they will work.
Former Deputy Adviser to the president Dr. Sebastian Gorka looked at the battle between the Trump White House and the media, holdovers from the Obama administration, and the entrenched bureaucracy on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Eight members of the White House’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) have resigned over President Donald Trump’s response to the recent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, also citing his “insufficient attention” given to cyber security issues.
The head of the United States Pacific Command, Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., testified before the House of Representatives in late April that the threat posed by North Korea has grown sufficiently to endanger the Hawaiian Islands. All around the globe, serious national security problems are coming to the fore in places like Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, and the South China Sea. Yet, because of holdover personnel from the Obama administration, and damaging Obama-era policies remaining in place, our military continues flailing.
Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, a senior career service employee at the State Department and a hold-over from the Obama and Bush administrations, has been removed from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s policy planning team, according to a report by Politico.
WASHINGTON – There are 14 Obama holdovers still at the Pentagon, two months into the Trump administration.
