The GOP-led Senate is relishing the chance to derail an old foe: Ken Cuccinelli, Trump's pick for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director
Ken Cuccinelli has spent years attacking Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans. Now, it’s time for payback.
The nascent nomination fight is again pitting the president against his own party in Congress. Just this spring, because of strong and very public opposition from Senate Republicans, Trump yanked his two preferred picks for the Federal Reserve’s board of governors before they even had been formally nominated.Sign Up
And immigration has been a particular sore spot: Every leadership position at the Department of Homeland Security related to immigration is filled only by an individual serving in an acting capacity — and White House officials are mulling the prospect of having Cuccinelli do the same.
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