President Donald Trump has considered getting rid of John Kelly and sending him to run the Veterans Administration.
The change would solve two problems at once: how to quickly mute the Washington-wide conflicts over his previous VA nominee Dr. Ronny Jackson, and what to do with a chief of staff who has become a less effective manager and has reportedly called him 'an idiot' in private.
Kelly would likely have an easy time winning his second Senate confirmation: He was originally green-lighted by an 88-11 vote to head the Department of Homeland Security.
The Wall Street Journal cited a White House source on Monday who said '[t]here have been discussions among the senior staff and the president directly about the possibility of Gen. Kelly going there [to the VA].'
Kelly lashed out Monday at an NBC News report that he had questioned the president's intelligence during an early April meeting, saying in a rare personal statement that it was 'total BS.'
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He would be wonderful in that job!
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