Kirstjen Nielsen Confirmed To Head Homeland Security

A year ago, I was analyzing Cabinet picks and was hoping Kris Kobach was going to get this job. We’ve come a long way though since the 2016 presidential election:

“The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Kirstjen M. Nielsen as the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, installing a close confidant of White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly to lead the federal agency responsible for carrying out many of President Trump’s most ambitious domestic policy plans.

Nielsen, 45, developed a reputation for fierce devotion to Kelly as his deputy at the White House and before that as his chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, which he ran from January until July. …”

Read the whole thing.

I still follow these issues. I simply quit writing about it a few months after the election. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have stopped doing it because lots of people aren’t seeing what I am seeing. This has become a conventional Republican administration presiding over the same boring agenda.