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Five Democratic senators say they appetite to authority an added acceptance audition for Kirstjen Nielsen, the Trump administration’s appointee to advance the Citizenry Aegis Department, citation a Washington Post address Thursday account efforts by the White House to burden the agency’s acting administrator on a above clearing decision.
["358.9"]sp-247-01.jpg | Johns Flooring Washington MoNielsen testified Wednesday afore the Senate Board on Citizenry Aegis and Governmental Affairs and fabricated no stumbles, calmly fielding questions on a ambit of aegis topics. But bristles associates of the acceptance console — all Democrats — beatific a letter to board leaders afterwards Thursday calling for her to acknowledgment for added analytic beneath oath.
On Thursday, the console adjourned its acceptance vote on Nielsen, afterwards senators submitted 197 written aftereffect questions about her testimony. That vote is now set for Tuesday morning.
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Democrats who active the letter say they now accept added doubts, afterwards The Post declared White House attempts to burden the acting citizenry aegis secretary, Elaine Duke, to belch tens of bags of Hondurans, as able-bodied as Duke’s affairs to resign.
["358.9"]sp-285-01.jpg | Johns Flooring Washington MoAt her acceptance audition Nov. 8, President Trump's appointee for Citizenry Aegis secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, responded to questions about white bellicism and anti-Semitism from Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.). (Reuters)
“These developments accession important new questions not alone about the political arrest of the White House in a key civic aegis matter, but additionally about the abilities and account of Ms. Nielsen’s choice to be the abutting Secretary of the Administration of Citizenry Security,” the senators wrote in their letter, which was addressed to the committee’s chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and its baronial Democrat, Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo).
“The appointee charge now acknowledgment questions about her adeptness to advance ability from her accepted actual superior, the White House,” they wrote.
As the majority party, Republicans ascendancy the committee, and Johnson could abatement the appeal to accompany Nielsen back. He has declared he wants her choice to advance quickly, and Senate staffers say the White House is acquisitive for her to get a abounding acceptance vote on the Senate attic afore the Thanksgiving recess.
["358.9"]sp-889-01.jpg | Johns Flooring Washington Mo[Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump’s appointee to advance Citizenry Security, sails through acceptance hearing]
During Wednesday’s acceptance audition afore the panel, Nielsen took questions from senators on affairs alignment from altitude change to agitated abandonment and cybersecurity. Nielsen, 45, a above DHS official who is the agent White House arch of staff, appeared to breeze through the session, demonstrating acquaintance with a ambit of aegis issues.
The bristles senators who beatific the letter — Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.), Gary C. Peters (D-Mich.) and Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) — said Duke’s abeyant abandonment was addition agency acute added affidavit from Nielsen.
“Given the possibility, based on account reports, that the Department’s Senate-confirmed Agent Secretary may anon resign, Board associates should be accustomed a adventitious to revisit Ms. Nielsen’s administration abilities in a academic audition setting,” they wrote.
["358.9"]sp-244-01.jpg | Johns Flooring Washington MoNielsen was best for the top DHS job by her boss, John F. Kelly, the White House arch of staff. She was his arch of agents back he was DHS secretary until July, back Duke, the agent DHS secretary, took over acting administration of the administration and its 240,000 advisers and 22 sub-agencies.
The Post’s commodity Thursday declared last-minute efforts by Kelly and the White House citizenry aegis adviser, Tom Bossert, to actuate Duke to abolish the conditional address of some 57,000 Hondurans active in the United States for about two decades with what is accepted as Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
The accommodation to renew or abolish the TPS permits is declared to be larboard to Citizenry Aegis admiral in appointment with the State Department. White House admiral accept again said the accommodation would be Duke’s to make.
Duke autonomous to end TPS protections for about 2,500 Nicaraguans but absitively she lacked acceptable admonition to accomplish that accommodation for the abundant beyond accumulation of Hondurans. Instead, she accepted them a six-month addendum — to the annoyance of Kelly and others at The White House.
["358.9"]sp-904-01.jpg | Johns Flooring Washington MoJonathan Hoffman, the top DHS spokesman, acknowledged the accounts that Kelly alleged to burden Duke, insisting she had accomplished out to him to seek admonition on the TPS controlling process. He said claims Duke affairs to abandon accept “zero absolute basis.”
DHS charge additionally advertise in the advancing weeks whether it will extend, adapt or abolish TPS for almost 50,000 Haitians and 200,000 Salvadorans whose address is due to expire aboriginal abutting year. On Wednesday, senators did not ask Nielsen for her angle on TPS or how she would accomplish the decision.
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