White
House and anonymous leakers at DOS (and outside DOS) in battle over
refugee costs by Ann Corcoran 6/22/17
Can you believe it! Reuters is
reporting on four anonymous leakers (inside and outside the Dept. of State) who
are saying chief White House aide Stephen Miller is trying to skew numbers to
make the refugee program look more expensive than they claim it is!
Former Asst. Sec. of State Anne
Richard is still in DC. Is she getting inside info. from her old pals at PRM?
Just wondering!
Most interesting to me is that a
former State Department “official” is in on the effort to skewer Miller (and
Trump of course!). Can you say ‘Obama shadow government’!
Editor: Sorry I’m giving you a quicky post here. I am preparing for something
this evening and have no time for more comment and analysis, except to say that
getting at the true cost of the overall migration of impoverished third world
refugees to middle America is almost impossible because in most states, the
welfare offices do not track and separate out the different classes of immigrants
using social services, Medicare, or sending kids to school.
For
federal budget planning, I’m guessing Miller is trying to get at the true cost
to admit the refugees in the first place which is where the federal budget
costs are initially incurred for decision-making needed by September.
Here is Reuters on the ‘Deep
State’ undermining the White House (again!), getting more cocky by the day aren’t they!
Is Simon Henshaw leaking? Two studies that
President Donald Trump hopes will buttress his case to cut the number of
refugees are at the heart of a fight between senior White House adviser Stephen
Miller and career U.S. government officials over immigration policy,
four current and former officials said.
Trump in March ordered the U.S.
State Department and other agencies to tally only the costs of resettling
refugees but not the benefits that policy experts said refugees can also bring,
including tax revenues, professional skills and job creation. [Virtually impossible, and are we going to
tally medicare, schools, housing, SSI and criminal justice system costs for how
many years?—ed]
Is Larry Bartlett leaking? A current
official said Miller had convened meetings with State Department staffers to
discuss the refugee cost reports. When department specialists proposed
including refugees’ economic contributions in the studies to produce a more
balanced assessment, Miller rebuffed the idea, one current and one former U.S.
official said.
The White House said Miller did not
hold meetings on the specific subject of the cost reports and that Trump’s
overall fiscal year 2018 budget proposal sought to “make transparent the net
budgetary effects of immigration programs and policy.”
The current and former officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
said they believe, however, that the administration wants to help make a case
to restrict refugee flows by creating a skewed analysis.
“It’s a policy outcome in search of
a rationale,” said a former U.S. official familiar with the debate. Continue reading here and prepare to be outraged!
Endnote: If Henshaw and Bartlett are not the leakers, they better
find out who is! They are responsible for whoever is talking to the
press! Like it or not, they work for President Donald Trump!
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