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God we pray for the new Acting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Give him Your wisdom and strategy to lead the department and to guide our military to carry out Your plans.
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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is withdrawing his nomination to lead the Pentagon. The abrupt announcement came in a tweet from the president, who said Shanahan had done “a wonderful job” but would step aside to “devote more time to his family.”

The president added that the Secretary of the Army, Mark Esper, will be the new acting secretary. “I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!” Trump said in a second tweet on the subject.

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The post atop the Pentagon has not been filled permanently since Gen. James Mattis retired in January following policy differences with Trump. Trump announced in May that he would nominate Shanahan but the formal nomination process in the Senate had been inexplicably delayed. Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, has been leading the Pentagon as acting secretary since Jan. 1, a highly unusual arrangement for arguably the most sensitive Cabinet position.

In his tenure at the department he’s had to deal with a wide array of international hotspots, ranging from missile launches by North Korea to the sudden shift of military ships and aircraft to the Middle East to deal with potential threats from Iran….

(Excerpted from Fox News.)

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