So, again, incompetence is astounding the American people. It is
amazing how poorly done so many things that have come out of the White
House in the first 2 weeks have been. It seems the President is
treating our Nation's most senior and capable members of his workforce
as if this is an episode of ``The Apprentice.''
Unlike on the campaign trail, the President's slapdash decisions,
tweets, and the basic incompetence of his administration threatens to
spread chaos across the country and across the world, undermining
America's global reputation and making Americans less safe--especially
the Executive order on immigrants and refugees. The events of last night make that fact as clear as day. Our
country's top lawyers think it is illegal, unconstitutional, and
indefensible. An unprecedented number of senior nonpartisan State
Department personnel--many of whom served under Republican
administrations loyally and ably--signed
onto a letter of dissent, a memo of dissent, actually, arguing that the
Executive order ``will immediately sour relations with much of the
Muslim world . . . [and] increase anti-American sentiment'' from seven
countries from which not a single refugee has ever committed an act of
terrorism in America, not a single one. Today, even more than yesterday and over the weekend, we have reason
to overturn this Executive order. I urge my Republican colleagues to
rethink their position, to join us on Senator Feinstein's bill to
rescind the order.
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