If Trump wants to accomplish even half of what he campaigned on, he will need to choose more wisely going forward.
FILE – Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 23, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump was blessed by the gods when his nominee for Attorney General withdrew from consideration – he should use this as an opportunity to level set. Gaetz was always going to be a tough sell in the Senate.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Republican Leslie Knope who has probably been playing model U.N. since elementary school, was picked for U.N. Ambassador. Linda McMahon, a business titan and prior cabinet member, is more than qualified to helm the Department of Education. I didn’t know anything about Hegseth when I first heard the news, so I read his book The War on Warriors, which helped me greatly. It’s a good book and I recommend it. His personal mission is to rid the military of DEI programs and woke generals and ideologically this fit makes sense.
Would you trust him in the Situation Room? It feels like a gamble, but maybe his combat experience gives him a base from which he can grow. Kennedy has never run a large organization. He has no background in medicine or public health. He promises to shake things up, and maybe we need a little of that at HHS, but shouldn’t we at least find someone with some sort of academic backing for their contrarian opinions?
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