Schumer: Trump administration is in ‘chaos’

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) blasted President Trump on Tuesday, saying his administration is in “chaos” amid a shake-up at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

“Every day we hear this is the president’s new policy, and two days later we hear it’s not happening,” Schumer said from the Senate floor. “People are being fired because they tell the president, according to news reporters, that he can’t break the law when he wants to do something. You cannot keep changing personnel, changing strategy, tweeting your way through a problem as serious as this.”

{mosads}He added that the “chaos stems from one source and one source only,” Trump, and “his whimsical, erratic and oftentimes nasty pursuit of policy.”

“I hope that the president or some of the people around him will realize that his administration is far from a fine-tuned machine. It’s a slow-motion disaster that the American people see in action every day,” Schumer said.

His comments come amid the departure of Kirstjen Nielsen as DHS chief, and after Trump yanked his top Immigration and Customs Enforcement nominee last week because he wants to go in a “tougher” direction.

Schumer argued that the “chaos” has spread further. He pointed to the months-long absence of a Senate-confirmed Defense secretary and vacancies within the State Department.

“We should be projecting stability and continuity through our State Department,” Schumer said. “Instead, it’s been battered and belittled by its own administration to the point where both sides in Congress have spoken out.”