Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is privately urging Trump to dismiss Acosta
President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are moving quickly to back up beleaguered Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. But pressure is rising from other corners of the White House, with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney privately urging the president to dismiss him.
Trump on Tuesday vigorously defended Acosta, telling reporters in the Oval Office that he has “been just an excellent secretary of Labor.” Trump is “pretty capable himself of reading the tea leaves apart from all that noise,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota. The editorial board of the Miami Herald, which has reported extensively on Acosta’s history, called on Tuesday for him to resign,, “If Acosta, when he was U.S. attorney in Miami, had shown an ounce of sympathy for the vulnerable girls Epstein sexually exploited, they would have had a powerful voice on their side.”
One move that has particularly rankled conservatives is Acosta's decision to allow an employment discrimination lawsuit to proceed against Oracle, the rare Silicon Valley company that is not entirely hostile to the GOP. While many expressed outrage over Epstein’s alleged crimes, most said they did not know enough about the 2008 plea deal to say whether or not Acosta had erred.
Now Acosta is one of the Cabinet’s few remaining survivors, and there’s little appetite for more vacancies with an acting Defense secretary, Homeland Security secretary, Office of Management and Budget director and other agencies lacking permanent leaders.
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