Quote of the Day: DHS Is On the Chopping Block

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Senior Advisor for Policy Stephen Miller.Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA

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From an unnamed senior administration official:

There is a near-systematic purge happening at the nation’s second-largest national security agency.

So far this includes:

Kirstjen Nielsen, secretary of Homeland Security
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services director Francis Cissna
Office of the General Counsel’s John Mitnick
Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles
Immigration and Customs Enforcement director-nominee Ron Vitiello

According to CNN, Trump recently “empowered” Stephen Miller to lead the administration’s border policies and Miller is starting out with “what amounts to a wholesale decapitation” of the Department of Homeland Security leadership.