A GOP lawmaker warned that President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of retired Gen. John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing a bureaucracy resistant to change.
“The Trump administration does have some of the right visions for securing America,” Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) told The Hill.
But Kelly, “a great guy to try to implement that … may run into some of the same impediments that, oft-times, we run into with bureaucracy, and that’s entrenched personnel that want to keep doing things the same way.”
{mosads}The Trump transition officially announced Monday that Kelly is the president-elect’s choice for DHS head, after news of his selection spread last week.
A number of GOP and Democratic lawmakers echoed Duncan in the challenges facing the next Homeland Security director in interviews with The Hill’s Molly K. Hooper conducted before Congress headed home for recess.
Watch the video above to hear GOP Reps. Duncan, Don Young (Alaska), Steve Russell (Okla.), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Dem Reps. Eric Swalwell (Calif.) and John Larson (Conn.), and former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) share their thoughts on the selection of Kelly.