Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) stated President-elect Trump’s nominations are being handled as a “parlor game” by lawmakers in Washington.
“I was a CIA officer. I know very intimately how important these jobs are for keeping us safe from attack. I think that Washington is really treating this as a parlor game right now, but the truth is, if you have someone who doesn’t act on really sensitive, important intelligence, Americans can die here and abroad,” she instructed the Detroit Free Press in an article revealed Friday.
Slotkin served three excursions in Iraq as a CIA analyst earlier than representing Michigan within the Home.
“To me, you have to have people of character and competence in these jobs, and that’s my standard,” she shared.
Trump has obtained criticism for nominating former Fox Information host Pete Hegseth to move the Division of Protection, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of nationwide intelligence, along with his longtime aide and transition staff chief Linda McMahon for the Division of Schooling publish.
Slotkin stated she would assist a few of Trump’s proposed nominees and anticipate formal investigations earlier than voting for others.
“I think some of them out there that have been nominated I would vote for, and others I may not, but I got to see the full file paperwork. There’s a vetting process, background checks,” she acknowledged.
Discussing the Democrats’ disappointing efficiency on this yr’s elections, wherein Republicans secured a trifecta, Slotkin stated her occasion’s messaging and rhetoric weren’t efficient in reaching voters.
“I think the preachiness sometimes — the faculty lounge approach to problems — comes through preach from some in the Democratic Party, and it’s just different,” she acknowledged.
“If you live in a swing state or live in [politically] mixed communities, sometimes even Thanksgiving dinner has become uncomfortable. But so many people don’t,” Slotkin continued.
“So many people here [in D.C.] come from either very red states or very blue states, so that humanity that we can see in each other, even when we have very different views of who should be our president [is lost]. It’s very dangerous that we’ve lost that in lots of parts of the country.”
