{"id":177991,"date":"2019-04-07T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/07\/cue-queen\/"},"modified":"2019-04-07T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:08:00","slug":"cue-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/07\/cue-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Cue Queen"},"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>And <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/416432-homeland-secretary-nielsen-resigns\">Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as Director of Homeland Security<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump announced Sunday that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will leave her post, ending a rocky run as the top official in charge of implementing the president\u2019s hard-line immigration policies. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The decision, which Trump announced on Twitter, comes just two days after the president abruptly pulled back his nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement because he said he wants \u201cto go in a tougher direction.\u201d The moves signal that Trump is seeking to shake up his team amid frustration over the spike in migrant families crossing the southern border. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Trump tweeted that Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, will lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on an acting basis until a permanent replacement for Nielsen is chosen. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecNielsen\/status\/1115027149054992384\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">resignation letter<\/a>, Nielsen wrote that she had \u201cdetermined that it is the right time for me to step aside.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what led to this, but it further reinforces the fact that the Trump administration is a complete sh%$ show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another One Bites the Dust And Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as Director of Homeland Security: President Trump announced Sunday that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will leave her post, ending a rocky run as the top official in charge of implementing the president\u2019s hard-line immigration policies. The decision, which Trump announced on Twitter, comes just &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":[573,450,438,374,454],"class_list":["post-177991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-employment","tag-immigration","tag-politics","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177991"}],"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=177991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}