“Ebola is a health crisis. Yet the
President has appointed as his new Ebola ‘czar’ a partisan loyalist whose
expertise is politics—not health. One would think, faced with the prospect of
an epidemic, the President would task an expert in epidemiology not an expert
in political spin. Sound bites are not going to deter a single infection or
save a single life. The American people can have zero confidence in Ron Klain’s
competence to carry out this critical role.
At the senior levels of this government, in
positions of extraordinary responsibility, the President has surrounded himself
with loyalists—individuals who were selected precisely because they are not
independent, will not tell the President ‘no’, and will not have any problem in
feeding bogus political spin to the media.
The President’s Director of Health and
Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, was promoted after refusing to answer even
those most basic financial questions from Congress during her dismal tenure at
the Office of Management and Budget. Burwell, a former campaign operative, was
tasked with overseeing the nation’s healthcare system despite no consequential
health care experience.
Secretary Jeh Johnson was chosen to head the one of the
largest and most important departments of government despite being a political
lawyer with no relevant background.
Johnson has devoted his short tenure not to
strengthening enforcement but dismantling it. Just today—as American citizens
face a jobs crisis, debt crisis, border crisis, security crisis, and now a
health crisis—Secretary Johnson announced actions not to restore gutted
enforcement, but further steps to open our borders. DHS is now extending what
amounts to a perpetual amnesty to thousands of immigrants from Honduras and
Nicaragua, while expediting immigration from Haiti at a time when we can’t keep
track of the millions we are already admitting.
The danger at this moment is profound. We
need to be barring visas and travel from Ebola-impacted regions. Additionally,
should there be an outbreak in Latin America, General John Kelly of SOUTHCOM
has warned that it would cause a ‘mass migration’ from Latin America of those
seeking free medical treatment in the United States. ‘If it breaks out, it’s
literally Katie bar the door,’ he warned. Does anyone believe that this
Administration is prepared to protect this country from such a scenario?
The Administration continues to refuse to
implement even the most commonsense immigration controls to protect public
health and public tax dollars. Mr. Klain’s appointment, unfortunately, suggests
things will get worse—not better.”
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