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
This article just started off bad right from the start.
whittle it down to 1000 and i bet no one misses the other 3k
Glad to see you haven't let up with your "concerns".....why don't you see if you can get a job as one of his inner circle advisers - I would wager you wouldn't last 2 seconds.
I am a CPA with a Masters in Taxation and a lifetime of tax experience. Can I run the IRS?
Speaking for myself and given the fact that they guy I voted for is a businessman who likes to streamline shit, shouldn’t some type of audit be done to see how many of those appointments are actually necessary? And not just some, made up position so somebody could give one of their friends a job?
Then Trump can eliminate their jobs due to funding during the budget process.
I have 20 years experience in county government, was chairman of numerous committees, will that help? I’ll even work for less money than the previous incumbents.
I’m not qualified for much but would like to serve! Maybe filling the White House copy machines with paper, or I would really love helping with the musical events. Guess I have a slim chance, huh?
Have every confidence Trump will hire the best and fire the rest,
I could possibly fill a Health and Human services role. Don’t know what the job would entail but I sure would like to cut the bureaucrats by 90 percent.
the biggest hacked system with the largest impact on our country is the voting system. we can fix that and i want to push that forward.
Voting systems standards would have to be created at the federal level so the states can come into line and submit their votes appropriately.
similarly, the wall will need a large scale system for communications, monitoring, wall infrastructure, and drone support. that's another system whose completion would greatly impact our country.
as far as i know, neither of these systems would fall under the FBI. DHS may manage the wall, but the software systems would, and should, come from another department. Possibly the same department as the voting software and standards... i'm just unsure which department that would be.
either way, there should be someone attached to the administration that can oversee the progress and give regular reports as needed to POTUS.
Like Swiss cheese - full of holes.
Ha...thanks! Would be great to hear and take part in those wonderful musical events. Surely they need someone to put the names on the audience seats!
Tell the existing staff of Obama they are welcome to apply,
but each one has to fill out the same FEC financial disclosure statement he did,
AND if any profited from their service beyond what their government salary warranted, they are history... Or bound for jail.
Sent the link to my brother, I am not qualified for anything.
Apply. Would not hurt.
Bump for the Trump Team!
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