Posted on 10/04/2017 9:21:56 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain said Tuesday he is refusing to advance U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Pentagon until he is satisfied the administration is communicating its plans for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Outside a tense committee hearing on Afghanistan with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, McCain told Defense News that because the administration has not been open with Congress, “we’ve been holding nominations … from the Pentagon to fill in those Pentagon jobs.”
The disclosure came little more than a month after Trump announced a new strategy, criticized for its vagueness, that involves sending more U.S. troops as advisers to the Afghan military. The Department of Defense has acknowledged that it has 11,000 forces on the ground, more than the 8,500 previously reported, and that it plans to send an additional 3,000-plus.
The holds pertain to an unspecified number of civilian nominees, said to be in middle management; however, Secretary of the Army nominee Mark Esper and Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness nominee Robert Wilkie — both senior positions — are also on hold.
Trump has notoriously lagged behind other modern presidents in filling jobs across the federal government, and about 70 percent of DoD positions that need Senate confirmation are unfilled.
“There’s a number of them that have been awaiting hearings and confirmations, some have had hearings,” said McCain, R-Ariz. “The Constitution says that the Senate has the obligation to advise and consent. I am in keeping with the Constitution of the United States. When I got reelected, I said I would support and defend the Constitution, I didn’t say I would support and defend the president of the United States.”
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You are correct McWeasal can put a stop to this crap anytime he decides to grow a set of testicles. Strip McIsane and the Kow from Alaska and her leftist friend from Maine from their committees and chairmanships, it’s quite easy.
This traitorous POS cannot die soon enough.
How’s it growing, John?
I never thought that ANY American should be tried at the Hague for War Crimes but Obama,McCain and BOTH Clintons are my exception because the American “checks and balances” and rule of law is dead. McCain OVERTLY conspired with America’s enemy in ISIS aligned groups and had a hand with Clinton overthrowing the Libyan government and ripping apart Syria just for starters.
Why get excited; he’s been doing this for the last nine years.
What’s that you say? He had a pickle in his mouth for eight of those years and just recovered his sense of speech.
Oh, of course, the Senator really isn't a real Republican.
Why is McLame still the head of the Armed Services Committee? He does NOT have the interests of the American people in mind but is a vindictive SOB out to damage President Trump’s presidency.
Die already, Johnnie McDemocrat...
McCain is only a slightly better person than the Vegas nutjob.
“I don’t know why he’s so concerned with details, he won’t be around long enough to see any of it anyway.”
We should be so lucky. This POS has more lives than a cat. One more reason that McConnell needs to go as McC could resolve this issue in a nanosecond.
Not working for, he IS the enemy.
Frankly, I’d like to know these too, as it seems to me these islamists should have been defeated already.
How long by these markers would it take us to “destroy” North Korea?
A few hours, one would say? Then what the holdup in defeating these forking islamists?
Is this your third name here? You were Cuban leaf right? Why do you keep changing your name?
Excellent idea. McCain in the front lines in Iraq or Syria.
Yes. Has been for quite a while. Trump’s people should take the job as temporary appointees until the senate confirms them.
I think this traitorous bum will be buried in an unmarked grave...for obvious reasons.
I think this traitorous bum will be buried in an unmarked grave...for obvious reasons.
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