The problem stems from Obama moving political appointees into SES positions prior to the inauguration so they could not be asked for resignations and the placing career Civil Service (loyals) into the vacated positions as “ Acting Deputies”. Congress is then slow rolling Trump Appointees and even when approved, the career CS employees will return to their full time position (which they hold while acting in the other position).
The political activists are not hired IAW properly filled positions as SES.
Also remember, POTUS inherited over 5-7000 security clearance requests that had not been investigated. These personnel (reported to be as many as 5000) are the people in question at SES.
POTUS inherits the enemy by not accepting their resignations (since they were not in appointed positions) after inauguration. These people are DS or Political Hacks. Can you imagine becoming CEO of a company that just hired 10-14000 people sworn to your destruction and destruction of your company and filling ALL of your top two tiered positions in every branch of the company?
This is only part of what POTUS is trying to right!
MAGA!
very valuable post, BILLY!!!!
Thank you for shining a bright light in your summary of how we got where we are today wrt the SES.