Posted on 11/11/2016 7:55:09 AM PST by EBH
November 06, 2016 • Making News
More than 4,000 political appointees, many of whom hold important leadership and policymaking positions, will be heading out the door next year with the change in administrations. Finding qualified people to fill these jobs is an enormous undertaking, but it is critically important to making the federal government work effectively for the American public.
There are four basic types of appointments: •Presidential Appointments with Senate Confirmation (PAS): There are 1,212 senior leaders, including the Cabinet secretaries and their deputies, the heads of most independent agencies and ambassadors, who must be confirmed by the Senate. These positions first require a Senate hearing in addition to background checks and other vetting. •Presidential Appointments without Senate Confirmation (PA): There are 353 PA positions which make up much of the White House staff, although they are also scattered throughout many of the smaller federal agencies. •Non-career Senior Executive Service (NA): Members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) work in key positions just below the top presidential appointees, bridging the gap between the political leaders and the civil service throughout the federal government. Most SES members are career officials, but up to 10 percent of the SES can be political appointees. (For more information see the Office of Personnel Management’s website.) There are 680 non-career members of the SES. •Schedule C Appointments (SC): There are 1,403 Schedule C appointees who serve in a confidential or policy role. They range from schedulers and confidential assistants to policy experts.
Source: Plum Book, Government Printing Office, December
Among other things, the chart below shows high numbers of PAS positions in the State and Justice Departments. That’s due to the hundreds of ambassadors, U.S. Attorneys, and U.S. Marshals, all of whom require Senate confirmation. You can also see that nearly a third of the total number of PA positions are concentrated in the Executive Office of the President.
The scale and breadth of the task of making so many critical appointments is daunting, and underscores the need for transition teams to get started early in order to fully staff the leadership of the next administration.
First Posted on Center for Presidential Transition
Mr. President-elect Trump, appoint non-politicians to as many positions as possible. That was one major reason we voted for YOU.
I’ll go ahead and volunteer for any open SCOTUS seat.
I’m a civil engineer with 30 years construction experience. II’d love to work on The Wall or transportation initiatives, especially cutting red tape to get shit DONE!
Jeez, if that’s all, forget about my post #23.
If a Freeper has any of the needed skills or knows reliable people who do, they should be swarming to these jobs. One of the biggest issues in the Govt is the same set of people keep passing these jobs back and forth from admistration to administration.. This is a golden opportunity to help drain the swamp.
If the Washington DC area was not so expensive, I would consider it.
Job ping
Exactly. I think this is why it is posted on the transition website. The question is, “Are we willing to serve at this critical juncture or do we keep saying somebody else will do it?” Trump showed great courage and even pledged his fortune and honor to be our President...now he is going to truly need our help to serve the people.
Good one.
I’ll take a Consular position in Geneva. I speak Swiss, hee, hee, hee, servus.
Yes, but he should think twice about allowing a lot of these positions to be filled by lobbyists IMHO.
I wish to be appointed the Director of the BATF.
Under my administration, there will be pistol vending machines in airports and schools.
Why don’t you consider a job with the FBI in Cyber security?
Yup, with some run up time I can build 10 miles a day of wall. Would be the project of a lifetime.
Ping!
“This is rediculous. The government has become too big.”
That is the job Newt wants with the Trump administration. Going through the government and paring it down to size. I imagine it will be some type of “tzar” position.
I’m available for Secretary of State.
I’m available for the U.S. Consulate in Florence, or the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem!
Hope that means at least 4,000 will be terminated.
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