SECNAV Fired
Former SECNAV John Phelan
Pentagon Says Secretary of the Navy John Phelan Exiting Trump Administration
Elizabeth Weibel
Secretary of the U.S. Navy John Phelan was revealed to be leaving his role with the Trump administration, “effective immediately,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell shared.
In a post on X, Parnell expressed that, on behalf of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Deputy Secretary of War Steve Feinberg, they were “grateful” to Phelan “for his service.” Parnell added that Under Secretary of the U.S. Navy Hung Cao would be serving as the Acting Secretary of the Navy.
“On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy,” Parnell said. “We wish him well in his future endeavors.”
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Phelan was reportedly “asked to step down,” an “official” in the Trump administration told the Hill.
Undersecretary Hung Cao, a 25-year Navy combat veteran is taking over as acting head of the Navy. Waiting on the back-story, but if this is the result of a policy disagreement he everyone would have been better served if Phelan had just quietly resigned “to spend more time with the family.”
Category: Big Navy, Reality Check
Early morning NBC reports alluded to a disagreement with Hegseth, but really offered nothing concrete. If this is true, then Phelan did the right thing in stepping down. He’s there to support and enact the policies of SECWAR and POTUS. If you can’t do that, resign.
My sources tell me this was not about policy, it was about effectiveness and performance. Also some stray voltage regarding an Epstein flight or two (you can read on wikipedia).
Hung Cow? What kind of a name is that? (I keed, I keed)
The difference between the Trump Administration and Biden:
Under #47, you serve at the pleasure of the POSTUS, but under Biden it was 4-year gig regardless of performance. Imagine if the SECDEF spent a week in the hospital without telling anyone? Just a “Yeah, fuck it. I need some work and no reason to tell sleepy Joe I’m not on the job”. Was Austin trying to save leave days on his next LES? Think about the shit show Dept of Transportation under Booty-gig. Airline traffic at standstill and the East Palestine train wreck that became another train wreck of ineffectiveness. None of the those guys lost their jobs, and the Industrial Media Complex just sung their praises.
Hung Cao should’ve been Trump’s choice for SECNAV from the very beginning.