They're not trying to get rid of a bad SecDef. They're trying to remove the one obstacle that makes their entire methodology fail.

Dear God, open our hearts to your love and grace this day and in all the days to come. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
https://www.upperroom.org/devotionals/en-2026-04-21

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frederic Bastiat

Dear God, thank You for promising to help us—and for calling us to join You in helping others.

https://www.odbm.org/en/devotionals/devotional-category/joining-god-to-help?ts=1776816000000

Keep Growing!
A. W. Tozer
One thing taught throughout the Bible, and particularly in the New Testament, is that the Christian life is a progression, a journey of the redeemed soul toward God. Another is that Satan stands to resist every step and to hinder the journey in every way possible. To advance against his shrewd and powerful opposition requires faith and steadfast courage. The epistles call it "confidence." In his Philippian epistle Paul declares his own determination to advance against all obstacles. He says in effect that while he is not yet perfect and has not yet attained unto the goal set before him, he is putting the past behind him psychologically as well as chronologically that he may go on to find in Christ his all in all. "I press on toward the goal," he says, "to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:14). Then with a fine disregard for apparent self-contradictions he urges, "All of us who are mature should take such a view of things" (3:15).

Please open my heart, dear God, to unified praise with others.

https://www.odbm.org/en/devotionals/devotional-category/staying-in-step?ts=1776902400000