To the editor: President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet selections which have raised eyebrows even amongst standard Republicans embody Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Well being and Human Companies secretary, Tulsi Gabbard for director of nationwide intelligence and Pete Hegseth for Protection secretary. In fact, on the high of the checklist is his choose for lawyer common, Matt Gaetz.
Gabbard and Gaetz can be discovered questionable by average Republicans in addition to Democrats. By all requirements, Marco Rubio for secretary of State is probably the most welcome addition to Trump’s Cupboard.
Additional proof that may present a greater perspective of Trump’s restricted attraction to voters and thus a mandate to problem his appointees is the revelation that this election was among the many closest we’ve ever had. Think about what Vice President Kamala Harris may need completed with a standard marketing campaign lasting a full yr.
Lynn Lorenz, Newport Seaside
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To the editor: Legend has it that the Roman emperor Caligula deliberate to nominate his favourite horse to the Roman Senate.
I think that horse would have carried out much less harm than practically anybody chosen by Trump for a authorities publish this month.
Lanore Pearlman, Claremont
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To the editor: I learn the Related Press article you revealed on presidential recess appointments. The tone was extremely destructive and really selective within the knowledge it supplied.
At no level did the article inform the reader that recess appointments are short-term and beneath no situation can they last more than the present congressional time period, which is one yr. Appointing somebody to a excessive administrative place with a most time period of 1 yr signifies that individual is instantly a lame duck.
Why did the article omit this info?
Gary C. Byrne, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: The short-term dismay of over lots of Trump’s Cupboard nominations will nonetheless result in a long-term mind drain from authorities service. It is a reversal from the World Warfare II period, with European emigrants turning into American immigrants and their grownup youngsters occurring to serve their nation.
Now, retirees and the well-off could also be contemplating shifting overseas. Folks with brains and expertise will accomplish that too. Even I’m wondering if I can cling on right here in California’s bubble.
Im Jung Kwuon, Porter Ranch
