he also has career civil servants in the cabinet departments
who cannot be fired slow walking Trump’s policy decisions and resisting quietly. They have Civil Service status so
barring criminal behavior they can only be given different jobs such as Regional Assistant Supervisor for making sure that plants don’t talk, or some such thing.
and that’s why Sessions and the other key Cabinets should have been confirmed and installed before Trump pulled the trigger on this action.
What a difference it might have made for the President to wait a few more weeks to launch this one*** - directing the State Department, AG, CIA and DHS to assure both the President and the Congress - in light of upcoming escalating military ops vs ISIS - that vetting of immigrants from terrorist sponsoring nations identified in Obama EO _____ was adequate
And if those agencies could not unanimously assure that an adequate immigrant visa anti-terrorist vetting system was in place, then issue a recommendation for a temp immigration delay not for 90 days- but until such assurance would be issued
Put the Cabinet, the CIA and the Congress on the hot seat for the national security aspect
instead of being the Lone Ranger and letting Bannon (or whoever) urge him to crank out these EO’s as if issuing EO’s was a blood sport
***unless there is some compelling threat no one has been briefed about including Congress