McAleenan met with Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, among others, the officials said. “This was a power struggle between McAleenan and Miller, and McAleenan won,” said one senior administration official with knowledge of what transpired. At Miller’s urging, Trump last month ousted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and the previous acting director of ICE, Ronald Vitiello, along with other top officials. She was dismissed three days later in a Sunday meeting at the White House and replaced by McAleenan in an acting capacity. The acting secretary worked in the Obama administration and has drawn some bipartisan praise over his two decades in government.

Source: Washington Post May 18, 2019 00:10 UTC