This administration’s avoidable miscues are not limited to how it exited the so-called “Graveyard of Empires.” It also is struggling to negotiate a social safety net package with its fellow Democrats - despite Senate moderates warning for months that they had demands to get their votes. “A new president has to get the attention of the national security agencies.” The official asked that their name not be used in order to speak candidly. “Always fire a general,” the former official said. One former White House official who served in a Democratic administration puts it another way - and in less academic prose. “Over the course of the first year, it is not unusual for presidents to fire poor performing or ethically compromised staff members,” according to Tenpas, who calls some terminations “expected and possibly beneficial.” “Any president’s first year is rife with optimism but often fraught with missteps,” said Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a presidential scholar at The Brookings Institution and the University of Virginia. If a president doesn’t run his national security apparatus, it will run him.
His administration could use the wake-up call a firing or two would bring. While it is understandable Biden wants to avoid the revolving door that was the Trump administration Cabinet and senior staff, accountability still matters. exit that left behind hundreds of Americans and even more Afghan allies, the president could have sent a message by firing someone involved. The president responded defensively and has yet to punish anyone involved. Days after the airport attack, administration officials carried out a drone strike that killed seven children - but not the extremist operatives they targeted. And over the past few months, plenty has gone poorly. Since, he has ordered what The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board in July dubbed a “firing spree.” But that is a reference to his ongoing purge of Donald Trump appointees from some plum federal government positions.īiden, notably, has yet to relieve any Cabinet official or senior adviser of their duties when things have gone poorly. “I’m not joking when I say this: If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treat another with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot,” Biden said during his first day in office.
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