In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day
What a petty little man.
In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
January 5, 2017
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
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The directive has nonetheless upended the personal lives of many ambassadors, who are scrambling to secure living arrangements and acquire visas allowing them to remain in their countries so their children can remain in school, the diplomats said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
In Costa Rica, Ambassador Stafford Fitzgerald Haney is hunting for a house or an apartment as his family — which includes four school-age children and his wife, who has been battling breast cancer — struggles to figure out how to avoid a move back to the United States with five months left in the school year, according to the diplomats.
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IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US TO GET ALONG
(i think i've expressed myself clearly)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]
Meanwhile, the (current) Rump wife won't move to DC because HIS kid needs to "remain in school" in NYC. The hypocrisy and general all-over evil just gets worse every minute of every day. 
