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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP furious with Mattis as he's not playing ball.....he's hiring Obama people.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/mattis-defense-hill-republicans-obama-236329Defense Secretary James Mattis unconventional choices for top Pentagon posts and his reluctance to aggressively push for dramatic increases in the defense budget have rankled Republicans on Capitol Hill who say hes burning through political capital he needs as he begins reshaping the Pentagon.
Mattis was widely embraced on both sides of the aisle when President Donald Trump nominated him. Republicans and Democrats alike expressed hope that the retired four-star general would be a moderating force on the volatile commander in chief.
But Republican lawmakers and senior congressional aides said in recent interviews theyre running out of patience with Mattis' staffing decisions, which have disappointed Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee hoping to see their ideological allies elevated to senior levels in the Defense Department. Others are grumbling about Mattis refusal to advocate a bigger increase in the defense budget, which defense hawks believe was gutted disastrously under President Barack Obama.
He certainly has got a tough job, but it sometimes feels like he forgets that we won the election, said one aide to a GOP senator on the Armed Services Committee, who declined to speak on the record for fear of publicly alienating the defense secretary.
Weve waited eight years for this, to be able to fill these posts with Republicans, said another top GOP Hill staffer. We know Trump isnt part of the establishment and that its going to be a bit different, but it should go without saying that a Republican administration is expected to staff federal agencies with Republicans.
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GOP furious with Mattis as he's not playing ball.....he's hiring Obama people. (Original Post)
sunonmars
Mar 2017
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roamer65
(36,745 posts)1. Mattis wants clean, hardworking decent people in those positions.
Naturally, that means people from one of the cleanest, best run admins in American history.
The President Barack Obama Administration.
wishstar
(5,269 posts)3. and not people like Michael Flynn
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)2. Intellegent enough to want intellegent people
The GOP has had a shortage in that area for quote some time, forcing Matis to look elsewhere to fill those important positions