P.S. - And these are the ones we know about.
Posted on 04/14/2017 9:12:26 PM PDT by HokieMom
The average administration would have filled about 20 percent of critical leadership positions by now. Trump has done half.
Staffing up President Trump's administration has been drastically slower than any of his three immediate predecessors, according to data collected and analyzed by a group of academics at the White House Transition Project.
"At this point since the inauguration, the average administration would have filled about 21 percent of those critical leadership positions in the government necessary to lead the government," the authors of the analysis wrote. "And though President Trump and the Senate majority have far fewer positions to stand up than previous administrations, they still have only completed around 10 percent of the total necessary to stand up the government."
The analysis found that not only is the administration behind in the number of positions already filled to this point, the Trump team is also behind in its pace of placing nominations and vetting documents in the pipeline, likely meaning they are not in a position to staff numerous remaining vacancies in the government quickly.
The analysis compiled data from the transitions of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama's presidencies to create an average model of how quickly a transition is likely to unfold.
The pace of the transition even drew the notice of Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Rove was critical of the understaffing, saying, "Leaving vacancies invites potentially embarrassing problems. If something goes wrong, the bureaucracy could blame the absence of leadership, leaving President Trump to take the heat. Cabinet secretaries could become overwhelmed trying to manage their massive departments with only a handful of personal aides. That leads to mistakes, burnout and unnecessary turnover."
As just one example of the staffing shortage, the web page that lists the leadership team of the Department of Labor showed 39 total vacancies out of 81 leadership positions as of April 12. Out of five positions under the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Labor, only one was filled.
Good. Though he needs to do a lot more firing. Get rid of ALL Obama holdovers. Replacing them is optional.
Trump has also had a whole lot more interference and obstruction from the disloyal opposition than any president.
Me thinks this is a deliberate move. He’ll discover who/what staff is necessary, instead of blindly hiring warm bodies to fill a chair.
He says that as if it were a bad thing.
P.S. - And these are the ones we know about.
Sessions says the Senate is slow on confirming people in his agency.
Sessions says the Senate is slow on confirming people in his agency.
The bastards put their agenda above the good of the country. Every time.
lol! Even Karl Rove thinks its a bad thing. o noes!
Overwork disloyal employees who are entrenched in the system and cause them to quit. Bring in loyal workers.
I CANNOT UNDERSTAND REWARDING DEMS BY KEEPING THEM EMPLOYED WHILE THE TRUMP TEAM HAS A BACKLOG OF GOP PEOPLE HELD UP BY UPCHUCK SCHMUCK SCHUMER.
FIRE ALL DEM POLITICAL PEOPLE NOW.
Bump!
First off, who cares what Roves says. Secondly, if Trump mass fires Obama holdovers and congress obstructs replacing them it may well cause more problems than going slow. Remember, Trump not only has to deal with the Schemer led Dems but with opponents from within his own party.
Trump is an amazing man in an incredible position. He is uncommonly astute, in my estimation, and I have to put my faith in that.
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Trump has also had a whole lot more interference and obstruction from the disloyal opposition than any president.”
For sure. Has all of his cabinet been approved? Seems like this has dropped off the radar.
He is cleaning the swamp.
This is what happens when a president hires using credentials and experience to hire people by rather than a list handed him by Uniparty bosses.
- Minimize the bureaucracy
- Knowledge that any he hires will have their past sifted through to see what sorts of lies can be made up about them
If Trump wants business as usual, he can drift along with the holdovers. They are, again, career civil servants, not Obama politicals, but they will still be the senior management team developed by the Obama team over eight years. They will not be redirected via WH tweets or a mystical mental aura projected by Donald, Jared, or Ivanka. Or Bannon, for that matter. It's going on six months after the election. In almost every agency around town, the head chair at the table is still sitting empty, and in most cases, there's not even an appointee in sight. This is not how you get change.
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