I the last week or so as Joe Biden rolled out his cabinet picks?
The Republicans began their effort to forma up the Biden admin department heads NOT President-Elect Joe Biden….And the Progressives are also grumbling from the other end….
Hold-Up!
Slow down….
Didn’t we see Trump & Co. push THEIR people wherever they wanted?
Light blub must have gone off in somebodies head over in Biden HQ…
Why not fill in the people you CAN below the cabinet level now before the January Georgia US Senate runoff vote which might get ya the majority in the confirmation process and allow you to place whoever you want , wherever you want?
As we have seen with Trump…
Your people in cabinet departments drive the bosses policies….
Now that he’s chosen a big chunk of his Cabinet nominees, President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is focusing increasingly on selecting candidates for government positions that do not require Senate confirmation.
Concerned about Republicans slow-walking confirmation hearings for Cabinet appointees and hollowed-out federal agencies, Biden and his aides are eager to place mid- to lower-level officials across the federal government, particularly in national security roles, to ensure his administration can begin to enact his agenda immediately, according to three people familiar with the situation…
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“You get into this weird situation where a lot of times you’ll have the top people confirmed and in place basically right away and the non-confirmed people at a whole lower level,” said Richard Fontaine, chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security. Those in between “can take literally months to get through the confirmation process.”
The Biden transition team is also considering asking former government officials, such as retired diplomats, to come in and fill key positions on an acting basis until the nominees for those jobs are confirmed by the Senate, according to a fourth person familiar with the situation. That could prove legally complicated, but it’s not impossible, some Foreign Service veterans said. (A person involved in the transition noted that retired officials are welcome to throw in their hats for jobs beyond those that require confirmation.)…