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There are more than 500 positions that President Trump has yet to nominate anyone to fill. 200 of which are seemingly of vital importance to the day to day operations of multiple sensitive agencies. Despite his earlier claims that it's the Democrats slowing down the process by stalling/blocking confirmations, the truth of things is that he and his team just aren't nominating people to be confirmed.

When questioned about it he replied...,

"Well, a lot of those jobs, I don’t want to appoint, because they’re unnecessary to have. You know, we have so many people in government, even me, I look at some of the jobs and it’s people over people over people. I say what do all these people do? You don’t need all those jobs."

Just because you don't have a personal understanding of these positions doesn't mean that they're all non-essential. Not many people understand the science behind a battery. That doesn't mean their radio will work with 3 instead of 4......

I think it's becoming obvious that just like health care, running the country is a lot more complicated than anyone knew.....
At least anyone involved with the Trump transition team, anyway.....

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Here is a comprehensive list of the positions in question:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Deputy secretary
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Deputy secretary for management and resources
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Legal adviser
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Chief financial officer
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Undersecretary for management
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Undersecretary for arms control and international security affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for legislative affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for intelligence and research
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Undersecretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Undersecretary for economic growth, energy and environment
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Undersecretary for political affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Undersecretary for public diplomacy
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for arms control, verification and compliance
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for political-military affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for crisis and stabilization operations
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for international narcotics and law enforcement
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for population, refugees and migration
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for economic and business affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for energy resources
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for oceans and international, environmental and scientific affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for consular affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for diplomatic security
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for African affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for international organization affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for South Asian affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Assistant secretary for educational and cultural affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Chief of protocol
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Coordinator for counterterrorism
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Director general, foreign service, and director of human resources
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Director, Office of Foreign Missions
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Coordinator for threat reduction programs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Alternate representative to the United Nations for special political affairs
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking with the rank of ambassador-at-large
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador-at-large and coordinator of United States government activities to combat HIV/AIDS globally
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Argentina
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Australia
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Belgium
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Belize
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Venezuela
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Canada
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Czech Republic
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Dominican Republic
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Germany
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, France and Monaco
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Luxembourg
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Holy See
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, India
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Ireland
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Afghanistan
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Italy and San Marino
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Japan
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Denmark
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Morocco
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Saudi Arabia
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Netherlands
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, New Zealand and Samoa
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Norway
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Bolivia
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Austria
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Belarus
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Costa Rica
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Finland
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Hungary
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Iceland
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Korea
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Portugal
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Singapore
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, South Africa
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Trinidad and Tobago
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Spain and Andorra
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Eritrea
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Sweden
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Switzerland and Principality of Liechtenstein
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Syria
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Bahamas
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Tanzania
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Ambassador, Cuba
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Permanent representative of the United States on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Permanent representative of the United States to the Organization of American States
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Public delegate, alternate U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Public delegate, alternate U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Public delegate, U.S. representative to the U.N. General Assembly
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Representative of the United States to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Representative of the United States to the European Union
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Representative of the United States to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Representative of the United States to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Representative of the United States to the Vienna office of the United Nations and representative of the United States to the International Atomic Energy Agency
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Representative to the United Nations for management and reform
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Special envoy for North Korea human rights issues
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Special representative of the president for nuclear nonproliferation with the rank of ambassador
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: U.S. representative to the Office of the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: United States deputy representative to the United Nations
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Special envoy to promote religious freedom of religious minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia with the rank of ambassador
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: U.S. representative to the Conference on Disarmament, with the rank of ambassador
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Representative of the U.S. on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, with rank of ambassador
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: U.S. representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, with rank of ambassador
DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Special representative of the president for nuclear nonproliferation, with the rank of ambassador
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Deputy secretary
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: General counsel
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Chief financial officer
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Assistant secretary for civil rights
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Assistant secretary for congressional relations
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Undersecretary for food safety
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Undersecretary for natural resources and environment
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Undersecretary for research, education and economics
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Undersecretary for rural development
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: General counsel
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Chief financial officer and assistant secretary for administration
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for legislative and intergovernmental affairs
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Undersecretary for intellectual property and director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Undersecretary for industry and security
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Undersecretary for economic affairs
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Undersecretary for oceans and atmosphere and administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Undersecretary for international trade
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Undersecretary for standards and technology
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for economic development
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for export enforcement
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Director general for the United States and Foreign Commercial Service and assistant secretary for global markets
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for enforcement and compliance
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for environmental observation and prediction
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for communications and information
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for export administration
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Director, Census Bureau
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for oceans and atmosphere
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Assistant secretary for industry and analysis
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Deputy secretary
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: General counsel
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Inspector general
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Undersecretary/comptroller
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Undersecretary for policy
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Undersecretary for intelligence
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for legislative affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for reserve affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Undersecretary of the Air Force
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: General counsel of the Air Force
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Secretary of the Army
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Undersecretary of the Army
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: General counsel of the Army
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Undersecretary of the Navy
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: General counsel of the Navy
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Director for operational test and evaluation
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Undersecretary for personnel and readiness
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Principal deputy undersecretary for policy
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Principal deputy undersecretary for intelligence
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Principal deputy undersecretary for personnel and readiness
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Principal deputy undersecretary for acquisition, technology, and logistics
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Principal deputy undersecretary (comptroller)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for strategy, plans and capabilities
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for homeland defense and global security affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for international security affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for Special Operations/low intensity conflict
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for acquisition
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for logistics and materiel readiness
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for nuclear, chemical and biological defense
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for energy, installations and environment
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for research and engineering
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for health affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Deputy chief management officer
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology, logistics
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary for financial management and comptroller, Department of the Air Force
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment, and Logistics
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Army for civil works
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Army for financial management and comptroller, Department of the Army
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics, and technology
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations, and environment
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, Department of the Navy
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: Assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, and acquisition
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Deputy secretary
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: General counsel
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Chief financial officer
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Assistant secretary for legislation and congressional affairs
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Undersecretary
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Assistant secretary for civil rights
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Assistant secretary for communications and outreach
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Assistant secretary for planning, evaluation and policy development
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Assistant secretary for postsecondary education
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Assistant secretary for career, technical and adult education
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Administration
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Director of the Institute of Education Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Deputy secretary
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: General counsel
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Chief financial officer
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Undersecretary for management and performance
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Undersecretary for nuclear security/administrator for nuclear security
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental affairs
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Inspector general
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Under secretary for science
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Assistant secretary for electricity delivery and energy reliability
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Assistant secretary for environmental management
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Assistant secretary for fossil energy
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Assistant secretary for nuclear energy
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Assistant secretary for international affairs
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Director, energy advanced research projects department
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Director, Office of Minority Economic Impact
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Director, Office of Science
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Deputy administrator for defense programs, National Nuclear Security Administration
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: Principal deputy administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Deputy secretary
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: General counsel
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Assistant secretary for legislation
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Assistant secretary for financial resources
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Director, National Institutes of Health
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Assistant secretary for aging and administrator, Administration for Community Living
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Assistant secretary for children and families
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Assistant secretary for health
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Assistant secretary for planning and evaluation
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Assistant secretary for preparedness and response
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Commissioner, Administration for Children, Youth and Families
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: General counsel
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Chief financial officer
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Undersecretary for management
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Undersecretary for intelligence and analysis
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Undersecretary for national protection and programs directorate
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Undersecretary for science and technology
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Assistant secretary for policy
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Assistant secretary for Transportation Security Administration
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Deputy administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Deputy administrator for protection and national preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Deputy secretar
xSharp · 31-35, M
a pretty bloated bureaucracy right there. maybe trumps cutting down and making whos left work harder for their 7 figure checks.. and access to the public teet. good for trump!
xSharp · 31-35, M
@room101: and heeeerrree we go again.. lmao🙄 your trapped in a circle, you must become aware and break free of it!
HikingMan · 51-55, M
I would rather live trapped in a circle of fact and knowledge, than run freely through a land of deception and delusion.....

Just my 2 cents on that comment....
xSharp · 31-35, M
@HikingMan: i agree, and that is why im such an asshole, because i do not spare feelings either. have you done the 12personalities.com test? it is supposed to be creepy accurate. i ended up with the logician personality type and it told me that im an asshole with facts as well so thats confirmation enough for me.
NEWS ALERT!!!!!

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Trump’s decision to appoint billionaires, bankers, and oil tycoons to his cabinet signifies that his administration does not plan to even pay lip service to a democratic government. The fact that many of the new cabinet members lack relevant expertise doesn’t matter.

As Lenin (Bannon's hero) famously said “any cook can run the state"


If anyone wants more insight into what is occuring, they should study The Russian Revolution of 1917.
HikingMan · 51-55, M
He wanted the job.
He campaigned for the job.
The electorate gave him the job.

Now it's time to do the job !

I suppose those 200 integral positions can wait until he gets around to it though......

Good argument you stated though....
Thanks.
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