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Donald Trump is tapping Gen. John Kelly to run the Department of Homeland Security, CBS News confirms.The final request and acceptance, stanley tumbler sources told CBSrsquo; Major Garrett, occurred while Kelly was traveling in Europe. His pick for DHS secretary will be announced by the transition staff in the coming days. Trump announces Mattis pick 09:18 Kelly is the third general tapped by the presid stanley cup spain ent-elect,joining Gen. James Mattis, Mr. Trumprsquo pick to become the next secretary of Defense,and Lt. Gen. Mic stanley canada hael Flynn, Mr. Trumprsquo incoming national security advisor. Like Mattis, Kelly is a Marine with a reputation for bluntness.Kelly was the commander of U.S. Southern Command until earlier this year. In that posting, he oversaw American military operations in South America and Central America. Before that, he commanded American forces numerous times in Iraq, and spent a year as the top Marine in that country. He then was an aide to defense secretaries Leon Panetta and Robert Gates.Created after the 9/11 attacks,the Department of Homeland Securitynow employs nearly 250,000 people. Trump pledged repeatedly to better secure Americarsquo borders on the campaign trail, and it is likely that Kelly, should he take the position, will be central to that effor Slxu Gillibrand rejects Trump s immigration offer: I don t take him on his word on anything
FREE MARKET FOLLIES....Back in the early days of his presidency, Bill Clinton introduced legislation to reform the federal student loan program. Instead of the feds setting interest rates and guaranteeing loans made by private banks 151; hardly a paradigm of the free-market in action in the first place 151; why not just cut out the middleman and have the feds make the loans directly It was a good idea and in 1993 the Direct Loan Program was duly created, but more than a decade later 75% of student loans are still made via the old subsidized system. Why Are private lenders more efficient after all Hardly. The subsidized loans are unquestionably more expensive for the government, to the tune of nearly $3 billion a year. As Jon Chait explains, the reason for the continued popularity of the subsidized system is a little more prosaic:It now turns out that the private lenders success came not through superior efficiency but through superior graft. The emerging college-loan kickback scandal is a vast scheme by private lenders to bribe colleges into foisting their services onto students. Lenders plied college-loan officers with meals, cruises, and other gifts. Some loan officers were given lucrative stock offers.....The very thing that drove conservatives to oppose Clinton s re stanley termosar form 151; the vast private profits made available by guaranteed loans 151; is what enabled the scandal. Almost any government progr stanley mug am creates at least vaso stanley some potential for cheating. The hallmark
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