Trump IS likely to have ‘acting’ Department heads starting off…..

Most of his cabinet choices are NOT gonna be confirmed on Jan. 20….

A few will never be….

Trump could  go with the second from the top , who do not have to be confirmed by the Senate….

But expect Trump to try to get what he can with the ability to use ‘Acting’ placements for more than 6 months….Congress is unlikely to let Trump do permeant appoints withOUT confirmation…

There will also be problems with some who will have personal problems with background issues and a few who might have second thoughts (Gaetz?)

In the past?

Some previous admin’s hold over where left in place….

I do NOT except to many of those….

President-elect Trump may need to rely on acting secretaries to fill out his Cabinet as a number of key nominations draw significant concern from key GOP senators.

When Senate confirmations are in limbo, especially if there is pushback from lawmakers, presidents can slip nominees into acting roles for at least 210 days. Trump did so across more than 20 Cabinet-level jobs in his first term.

Trump’s picks like Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary, Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for Health and Human Services secretary, among others, are sure to face some opposition from Senate Republicans….

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Senators will question other nominees, like Gabbard, over if they’re qualified for the role or have any conflicts of interests.

By February 2020, acting secretaries under the Trump administration served a total of 2,736 combined days, across 22 Cabinet-level jobs, according to a Washington Post analysis.

During his first four years in office, Trump had acting officials serve more than three times as much as former President Obama had during his eight years in office. Under Obama, there were 2,202 combined days in which acting officials served….

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