Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), in a scathing letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slammed “partisans and obstructionists” at the Department of Defense who are already plotting ways to thwart the incoming president’s agenda.
Cotton was responding to reports that officials within the United States government are conspiring against President-elect Donald Trump to undermine decisions he finds warranted in furthering the interests of this nation.
Like mass deportations or firing underperforming officials.
“It appears that partisans and obstructionists inside the Department of Defense are laying groundwork to defy or circumvent President Trump’s plans for both military and civil-service reform,” Cotton wrote. “These actions undermine civilian control of the military and our constitutional structure of government.”
Partisan actions undermine civilian control of…
