Service secretaries represent potential alternate power centers inside the Defense Department, and Mattis as defense secretary has an interest in having secretaries who are loyal to him and don't have independent relationships with the White House.
Mattis is also pushing for the Trump transition team to allow "Never Trump" Republicans to serve in the Pentagon, but so far the Trump team is refusing.
My guess: Donald will keep him around long enough to humiliate him, a la Chris Christie and Mitt Romney, and then dump him for a more compliant sycophant.
One position that is a source of tension is undersecretary of defense for intelligence, a powerful post that overseas all Defense Department intelligence agencies
Are we having fun yet?
ALL THE FUN!
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat
Republican- the other white meat.
Fun is being had (so to speak)
Not at present. However, fun will have been had. Or current fun-deficient events may, in the future, be characterized as having been "fun-like."
If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic.
My guess: Donald will keep him around long enough to humiliate him, a la Chris Christie and Mitt Romney, and then dump him for a more compliant sycophant.
He may be in for a surprise- unlike the craven pols Mittens and Christie, Mattis is not likely to be too keen about Donnie pulling his BS
"You've been on the job for three weeks, and have failed to kick the shit out of ISIS. You're fired!"
I think I'm down with this idea!
<img src="http://factfile.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Australian-Convict-Image.jpg">
The oversite committee!
Coastal elites have weather?
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1kx96NUQAAv9lr.jpg:large" />
And that's why the Orange One has |directed| the chairs of the Congressional committees to investigate the leak of the report to NBC News!
Q: Hey, wait a minute: which committees?
A: None of your business!
Q: And can the president-elect, or even the president, tell Congressional committees, which are not part of the executive branch, what to do?
A: Shut up!
It was that damn Wonkileaks!!!