While the transition of power for the highest office in the government occurs as it does every four to eight years, we know this time, it will not be business as usual. Coming out of the campaign already is support and opposition to potential Cabinet appointees.
While Rand has been very onboard with returning America to governance along the lines of the Constitution of America, he has now come out in opposition to two potential picks.
Rand Paul: I oppose both Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton for secretary of state.
REMARKS: Ohhhhbama's smile says it all. ['it won't be my problem anymore, you deal with all these people in Washington!]
Top Cabinet Picks
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2016/11/15/Trump-s-cabinet-picks.html
Reince Priebus - Chief of Staff
Stephen Bannon - Chief Strategist
The rest are under consideration.
"We want an outsider who will change DC and fight the East Coast elite!"
-Conservative Voters, who elect Crooked NYC Billionaire TV Personality who appoints DC Insiders and Far-Right Conservatives to Cabinet.
This is rather scary. The 'new' pick for the head of the CIA, wants Snowden dead. This is not a good sign for the truthers movement.
13 hours ago.
"Great meetings will take place today at Trump Tower concerning the formation of the people who will run our government for the next 8 years" DJT
Remarks: He's wasting no time in forming his cabinet.
Newt Gingrich wants to be Trump's Senior Planner.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/11/22/494733/US-Donald-Trump-Newt-Gingrich
Trump names KT McFarland, Don McGahn to White House posts
McFarland served in three separate Republican administrations, most notably as a spokeswoman for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger under Ronald Reagan. In 2006, she sought to challenge Hillary Clinton for her U.S. Senate seat from New York but lost in the Republican primary. Most recently, she has been a regular contributor to Fox News on national security issues.
She joins retired Gen. Michael Flynn, previously named as Trump’s national security adviser.
McGahn, who was general counsel for Trump’s campaign and a former chair of the Federal Election Commission, is a partner at the powerhouse Washington law firm Jones Day.
at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, would make no additional high-level announcements until next week when he returns to New York. On Monday, he will meet with several more potential Cabinet and sub-Cabinet choices, including Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Pennsylvania Rep. Lou Barletta and Oklahoma Atty. Gen. Scott Pruitt.
http://yalibnan.com/2016/11/25/trump-names-kt-mcfarland-don-mcgahn-to-white-house-posts/
Mike Mattis for Defense Secretary. That is who was selected by Trump, but Congress has to agree and issue a special waiver for him.
"If confirmed, the highly decorated battlefield commander would be only the second retired general to become defense secretary — and would require a special waiver from Congress in the form of separate legislation."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/opinions/inside-the-mind-of-mad-dog-mattis-bergen-opinion/index.html
REMARKS: Trump has chosen battle ready commanders. General Mattis remarks about some Taliban are incorrect. Mullah Omar had said in an interview with journalists that HIS men were not even allowed to say anything bad about women, much less strike or hit them. There is this misunderstanding about the talibs, because there may be examples of fighters who were harsh with women. Here is something the incoming administration ought to know. THE Taliban are not even opposed to progess in their country in so far as projects like those mentioned in this article. They even offer protection. They would like prosperity in their country, they just do not want their wealth stolen and given to the some Arabs.
"The Islamic Emirate not only backs all national projects which are in the interest of the people and result in the development and prosperity of the nation but are also committed to safeguarding them," the Taliban said in a statement.
"The Islamic Emirate directs all its mujahideen to help in the security of all national projects that are in the higher interest of Islam and the country." The fighters identified the $3bn Mes Aynak copper deposit in Logar province, near Kabul, as one project they would protect.
The Taliban also mentioned the $10bn Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, and a regional electricity-generation effort linking Central Asia and South Asia, known as CASA-1000. The Taliban statement came a day after the official launch of a railway link with neighbouring Turkmenistan.
Further remarks: Trump said we will meet most the rest of his Cabinet picks next week. (They will be announced).
[Edited on 12/3/2016 by gina]
[Edited on 12/3/2016 by gina]
MEDICARE MEDICAID CABINET PICKS
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/04/seema-verma-trump-centers-medicare-medicaid-cms
Seema Verma, Donald Trump’s choice to head the two largest public health insurance programs in the US, is a conservative darling who has introduced work requirements and lockout periods for impoverished recipients into the medical safety net in three states. A close adviser to vice-president-elect Mike Pence, Verma – Trump’s nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – made her name devising Indiana’s Medicaid plan, one of the most punitive in the country.
The unique requirements Verma and her consultancy firm SVC Inc designed for Indiana required them to pay premiums even if only $1. In Indiana it forces people to pay up to 2% of their income for coverage. Which mimics parts of the Obamacare program. Obamacare allowed people to earn 138% of the federal poverty level or $16,000 for one person. If someone cannot come up with the premiums for two months, they get kicked off the program and locked out for six months.
In Indiana, if people on Medicaid earning between $11,000 and $16,000 don’t pay their “premiums”, they can be locked out of the program for up to six months, a provision even commercial insurance does not impose.
TOM PRICE will be her boss and he opposes Obamacare.
In Kentucky, her company developed a plan to require the poor to perform “work activity”, which could include unpaid community service, in order to receive health insurance. After three months there is a work requirement in Kentucky. 5 hours a week for one year. After one year then 20 hours a week. Medicaid covers 73 million people.
REMARKS: Baaaaad move on the part of Mr. Trump. Poor people do not need to be further punished because they need health care. The "work activity" requirement is just some b.s. that uses people as modern day slaves. A business can get FREE labor, while the person who has to do the work wastes their time in low level work that qualifies them for nothing. They use them to Xerox, staple, collate papers, file, while the person doing the work gains no meaningful job skills, and then has that much less time to even look for a real job. I have seen the program in action, because NYS mandates their social service public grant recipients to do the same thing. I saw displaced workers, and young people just used like servants, the heads of a company just keeping money that could have been allocated to salaries to hire workers and give someone a job. The lawmakers who think that these programs will teach poor people what it means to work, well it won't. They already know what work is and what it means. Why not create some actual real jobs so they can rise from the status of being poor? No, it seems easier to punish them, and keep them down and poor.
If the government wants to end poverty, it will have to require employers to start paying living wages, and it has not seemed to want to do that.
