President Trump’s effort to refocus national security policy on China is being resisted by government bureaucrats and by some within his own administration, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said on Monday.

“I think the president has had trouble finding allies within his own administration that will actually carry out his point of view on this,” Hawley told reporters after delivering a speech on foreign policy at the Center for a New American Security.

“So I think that, you know, he has constantly found himself resisted by various elements of the bureaucracy and sometimes members of his own staff in actually carrying out what he wants to do.”

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