{"id":177984,"date":"2019-04-09T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/09\/cue-queen-again\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T22:53:00","slug":"cue-queen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/09\/cue-queen-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue Queen Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rY0WxgSXdEE\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Another One Bites the Dust<\/i><\/div>\n<p>So now <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/438145-dhs-deputy-secretary-resigns-nielsen-says\">the acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has quit<\/a> \u2026\u2026\u2026 or was fired \u2026\u2026\u2026 I&#8217;m not sure which:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Claire Grady, acting deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), offered <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\">President Trump<\/a> her resignation Tuesday as the agency finds its upper ranks thinned after a string of departures.<\/p>\n<p>Her exit comes after DHS Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/kirstjen-nielsen\">Kirstjen Nielsen<\/a> announced Sunday she was leaving her post. Trump subsequently withdrew his nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the White House announced that Secret Service Director Randolph &#8220;Tex&#8221; Alles would be departing the agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last two years, Claire has served @DHSgov w excellence and distinction. She has been an invaluable asset to DHS \u2013 a steady force and a knowledgeable voice,\u201d Nielsen tweeted in announcing Grady\u2019s resignation, adding it will be effective Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer sound leadership and effective oversight have impacted every DHS office and employee and made us stronger as a Department. Clair has had a remarkable career in public service &#8211; 28 years at the Departments of Homeland Security &amp; Defense &#8211; that is coming to a close. I am thankful for Claire\u2019s expertise, dedication &amp; friendship &amp; am filled w gratitude for her exemplary service to DHS &amp; to our country,&#8221; she continued in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>This video file cannot be played.(Error Code: 232011)<\/p>\n<p>Claire Grady, acting deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), offered President Trump her resignation Tuesday as the agency finds its upper ranks thinned after a string of departures.<\/p>\n<p>Her exit comes after DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Sunday she was leaving her post. Trump subsequently withdrew his nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the White House announced that Secret Service Director Randolph &#8220;Tex&#8221; Alles would be departing the agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last two years, Claire has served @DHSgov w excellence and distinction. She has been an invaluable asset to DHS \u2013 a steady force and a knowledgeable voice,\u201d Nielsen tweeted in announcing Grady\u2019s resignation, adding it will be effective Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer sound leadership and effective oversight have impacted every DHS office and employee and made us stronger as a Department. Clair has had a remarkable career in public service &#8211; 28 years at the Departments of Homeland Security &amp; Defense &#8211; that is coming to a close. I am thankful for Claire\u2019s expertise, dedication &amp; friendship &amp; am filled w gratitude for her exemplary service to DHS &amp; to our country,&#8221; she continued in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Grady\u2019s departure was expected after Nielsen\u2019s resignation became public, though it means the department will still be without a Senate-confirmed deputy secretary as the White House works to replace the agency\u2019s top leadership. It also clears the way for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) head Kevin McAleenan to come on as the new acting DHS secretary.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ernst R\u00f6hm would call this brutal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another One Bites the Dust So now the acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has quit \u2026\u2026\u2026 or was fired \u2026\u2026\u2026 I&#8217;m not sure which: Claire Grady, acting deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), offered President Trump her resignation Tuesday as the agency finds its upper ranks thinned after a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,450,588,374,454],"class_list":["post-177984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-employment","tag-fail","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}