White House Chief Just Let Slip The Massive Thing Obama Has Planned BEFORE His Term Ends
from Western Journalism:
Seven years after he authored a doomed-to-fail executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, President Barack Obama is making the closure of the facility a priority for his final year in office, a top aide said Sunday.
“He feels an obligation to his successor to close that, and that’s why we’re going to do it,” White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said on Fox News Sunday.
In the wake of Obama’s use of executive orders on immigration and gun control, Fox show host Chris Wallace highlighted the presidents disregard for the role Congress has in legislative action.
“You are going to do it?,” Wallace said. “Whether the Congress says yes or not?”
“Sure we are,” McDonough responded.
“The president just said he’s going to present a plan to Congress and work with Congress to close it and then we’ll make some final determination,” McDonough said. “I’m not an ‘if-when’ guy. I said we’re going to close it. [Obama] just said he’s going to present a plan to Congress to do that.”
