April 10, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 62 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                              Nominations

  Mr. President, finally, on chaos. Over the past 12 days, the 
President has sought to fix his broken policies by breaking down his 
administration piece by piece. Even in an administration where we have 
become used to seeing extremism and illogic rule the day, a government 
of whim, a government of erraticism, a government of temper tantrums, 
the last few days has reached a new low in dysfunction, and all of this 
has a simple root cause. Every time President Trump faces a new 
challenge, he just keeps pointing his fingers and blaming others--blame 
her, blame him, fire this one, and fire that one.
  Mr. President--President Trump, you are not a TV host. You are the 
President. Work to fix it. Don't keep firing. Don't keep changing 
policies from one day to the next and then abandoning them. Roll up 
your sleeves, bring in the experts, and work to fix it. You are the 
President--but the President seems to much more enjoy blaming people, 
whether they are in his own administration, people of our political 
party, and everyone else in between, than actually solving the 
problems.
  He says he wants to keep Americans safe, but President Trump fires 
the DHS Secretary and Secret Service Director on a whim and provokes 
shutdowns that cripple our airports and our ports of entry. The 
President says he wants to strengthen America's standing in the world. 
Yet no President has done more to undermine the work of diplomacy and 
the State Department than Donald Trump. He says Republicans will be the 
party of healthcare. Yet he sues to devastate our healthcare system, 
with no plans to replace it.
  In this administration, chaos reigns, and the source of the chaos 
comes only from one place, the President of the United States and his 
erratic, vacillating, often vindictive attitudes toward personnel and 
policies. When will President Trump learn that the biggest problem is 
not the personnel executing his agenda; it is the extreme irrational 
policies that are abhorrent to American values and sometimes against 
the law, but he insists on it. Every day that President Trump treats 
the most consequential job in the world like it is some kind of reality 
TV show is another day that America's security, stability, and long-
term prosperity is further in peril.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.