Chris Coons’ Bipartisanship Buddy today is Sen. John McCain, who joined Delaware’s Avatar of Aisle-Crossing to send a strongly-but-not-too-strongly worded letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging Trump to withdraw a nominee for the State Dept.’s top refugee job, an anti-immigration zealot named Ronald Mortenson.
“We encourage the administration to withdraw Mr. Mortensen’s nomination to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration and to work with President Trump to nominate a qualified individual who is committed to the United States’ legacy of promoting the human rights of displaced people,” the two senators wrote in the letter.
Encourage, eh? Yeah, that oughta do it. Well done, Chris.