Rex Tillerson is not a happy camper. According to reports coming out of the White House, he got into another argument with a Trump aide over control of the State Department.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson argued with senior White House aide Stephen Miller over immigration issues last week in a second recent clash with the White House.
Miller pushed Tillerson and the State Department to be tougher on immigration and make changes to the programs they control, according to four people familiar with the conversation in the West Wing. John Kelly, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, was also present.
Two of these people described the conversation as tense, though there wasn’t the “yelling” that Tillerson reserved for Johnny DeStefano, the head of presidential personnel, in a different argument at the White House the same day, according to one of these people.
Tillerson made it “quite clear” to Miller that he wanted autonomy over his department, one of these people said.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the record. A State Department spokesman declined to comment. Miller didn’t return repeated requests for comment.
This shouldn’t be too surprising given that Trump likes to operate in complete chaos but how much longer can Tillerson operate in an atmosphere where he believes his control over the State Department is being eroded?
Meanwhile President Tweets-a-Lot is busy battling Mika and Joe…