Tag: Kirstjen Nielsen

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, weighs in on the Mueller report, the Trump WH's plan to fight a subpoena of Don McGahn, Kirstjen Nielsen's attempts to prepare for Russian interference in the 2020 election and his new book 'Our Lost Declaration.'…

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Americans are in a state of abject panic amid reports that Donald J. Trump is threatening to dump thousands of fired Cabinet members and aides on cities that do not support him. Harland Dorrinson, who lives in San Francisco, said that “every American should be alarmed” at the spectre of former Trump staffers like Kirstjen Nielsen, Scott Pruitt, and Anthony Scaramucci descending on their towns. “A lot of these people were unsavory to begin with, and their time at the White House only hardened them,” he said. Carol Foyler, who resides in Boston, said that, with Trump staffers being fired at a rate of four hundred a day, she lives in terror at the prospect of these castoffs melting into the general population. “I was on line at Starbucks the other day and I thought I saw Steve Bannon,” she said. “It turned out it was just some other creepy-looking guy, but my heart was racing. The fear is real.” Tracy Klugian, who lives in Minneapolis, has started a petition to create a city ordinance preventing former Trump aides from settling in his town. “This city is full,” he said. As they brace themselves for an onslaught of fired Trump underlings, some Americans are grasping for a silver lining. “As of now, Stephen Miller and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are still employed at the White House, where their movements can be closely monitored,” Foyler said.

President Trump announces Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will become acting secretary; Garrett Tenney reports from the White House. #FoxandFriends #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan is named acting Homeland Security secretary after the departure of Kirstjen Nielsen. Mark Morgan, former Border patrol chief under President Obama, reacts. #FoxandFriends #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC),…

The Department of Homeland Security warns the 'crisis at our border is worsening.' FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation.…

Democrats on Capitol Hill hammered Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over the Trump administration's family separation policy at the border. Garrett Haake and Michael Steele discuss. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC delivers breaking news and in-depth analysis of the…

South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune says House Democrats are blinded to the crisis at the border by their hatred of President Trump. #AmericasNewsroom #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio,…

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen faces a Democrat-controlled House committee for the first time. #CNN #News

The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog is calling for disciplinary action against a Trump administration political appointee who has refused to cooperate with an investigation into alleged retaliation against career civil servants, according to a memo released Thursday. Christine Ciccone, a former senior official at the State Department and now an assistant secretary of legislative affairs at DHS, has failed to agree to an interview with investigators “despite repeated requests made to both her and her attorney over many months,” DHS Acting Inspector General John Kelly wrote to Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a Feb. 13 memo. The State Department Office of Inspector General said a senior official's refusing to submit to an interview is “unprecedented.” That office is looking into allegations of retribution against career State Department employees, and has tried to speak with Ciccone as a “key witness” in that inquiry since September, Kelly wrote in a memo released by three Democratic lawmakers. When asked about the memo, the Department of Homeland Security did not say whether Nielsen would take any disciplinary action against Ciccone. The secretary “is reviewing the issue,” DHS Press Secretary Tyler Houlton told NBC News in an email. Ciccone is just one of several officials who have come under scrutiny over allegations that career diplomats and civil servants have faced retribution from political appointees at the State Department since President Donald Trump entered office. In a joint statement, the three lawmakers called Ciccone’s behavior “outrageous.” The three lawmakers demanded Nielsen take prompt action to uphold the inspector general office's legal authority and to report back to their committees by Friday to update them on the case. A Democratic congressional aide, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the case was “another example of how Trump administration political appointees believe that the rules don’t apply to them.” The State Department has said previously that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would not tolerate political retribution against career employees. She wrote to her supervisor Brian Hook, then the director of the policy planning staff and now overseeing Iran policy at the State Department, asking for his help to “correct the record,” according to the emails. Hook forwarded her email to other political appointees at the State Department, who then passed it along to the White House.