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To: Innovative
This Obamacare has been in effect too long and has been modified so damn many times that no one can successfully understand. It will have to be destroyed in pieces. The only hope is to get a start, although slow, might be the better plan. If President Trump signs the bill I trust him to have a plan. Total eliminating Obamacare in one sweep would be impossible to do without bad thing happening.
10 posted on 07/15/2017 12:35:35 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Logical me
If President Trump signs the bill I trust him to have a plan.

How would Trump have a plan? He hasn't even staffed the administration yet. A total of 47 Trump nominees have been confirmed across the entire government. At HHS, there are Tom Price and two others. I did a quick spot check of a couple of departments and agencies with which I have some serious familiarity. They are mostly being run by Actings. A couple of these are old pals of mine and are, IMHO, very solid people; I don't even know their personal politics, which is as it should be for career civil servants. But they will not, and should not be, change agents. They are Acting; they will be competent placeholders who will keep the trains running on time, but they will not and should not rock the boat.

I have not been able to find a count on Trump Administration Schedule C's, which do not require Senate confirmation. There are about 1500 Schedule C positions, but they would not ordinarily be filled until the Under Secretaries and other senior political spots are filled. The Cabinet secretaries will have brought a few on board, but most will still be vacant.

This is nine months after the election. The transition is behind where it should have been in January. An entire year has been lost. The 2018 budget must be approved by October 1 and there is virtually no political leadership in any of the departments and agencies beneath the Secretary's office. White House tweets cannot fill the gap. Nor can Jared.

Yes, the dems are slow walking everything. But a majority of the potential nominations have not yet even been made. We can't accuse the Democrats of stalling if a name has not yet been submitted.

11 posted on 07/15/2017 1:22:25 PM PDT by sphinx
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