Posted on 12/04/2024 4:21:39 AM PST by LRoggy
I was wondering if the RINOs decided to gang up and not vote for the more important Trump supported Cabinet choices, what remedy could he have to keep those selections in charge.
Could he leave the slot open and announce his nominee is now a Special Advisor to him in charge of that department? Are there technical issues with that?
I'd rather leave a bunch of open vacancies than give in to the Establishment scum.
Would be enlightening to see if government works just as fine, and it would feed into the DOGE approach if little effect is seen.
My essential understanding is that cabinet positions do not have to be fulfiled in an official sense, but can be filled by other people in addition to their own cabinet position. So, the Secretary of Transportation, for example, could be a collaborative effort between the other cabinet positions.
Just put someone temporarily there for 4 years..
The President is the executive branch, he can leave any cabinet position open and direct the lower officers to run that department as he sees fit.
> Could he leave the slot open and announce his nominee is now a Special Advisor to him in charge of that department? <
Good question. My layman’s guess is that an Acting Secretary would work, but not a Special Advisor.
And that’s because a Special Advisor has no authority to issue orders to the department. So he certainly would be ignored by the rank-and-file in that department.
All a Special Advisor could do is report every last problem to Trump, and then Trump would have to issue the orders directly. Rather inefficient.
How long can an Acting Secretary legally serve as the head of the department before requiring confirmation?
The only reason a CEO has managers under him is the way large organizations must be run. The leader sets the policies he thinks will lead to success. He chooses subordinates to implement those policies. The subordinate turns the leader’s ideas into real, functioning mechanisms. That job can be extremely complex. The subordinate saves the leader from getting mired in the weeds, which is what happens to over-controlling leaders. Even if the CEO wants to wind down and eventually delete a department, say Education, it takes someone to handle that so as to prevent a “leaving Afghanistan” level disaster.
Reagan’s success and Trump’s business success relied on finding the right people to turn policy into mechanism.
yes
Trump “Until my cabinet is in place I order all immigration ports closed and no entry by anyone other than citizens is probibitied entry to the United States. Thank you.”
I think he can appointing acting members under the Vacancies Act. These people can serve for 210 days.
Hope you didn’t spend too many hours dreaming up this cr**.
However, my understanding is that the President has a lot of leeway in changing the lines of succession in each department in the event a vacancy arises.
Love it that the courts told Biden that Texas could use the razor wire in the Rio Grande to stop them. I believe they're going to add more.
Of course. A cabinet position is merely a department head operating under the President. The President is in charge of all Executive Branch departments.
Maybe our FRiend S. was just having a bad morning. It happens. I for one very much appreciate these kinds of discussion posts. For one thing, I often learn something new and interesting.
If there are no appointed leaders in place then he should halt Agency spending and everyone in the Agency gets terminated, effective immediately, and the Agency facilities and records revert to GSA and NARA.
Take a look at the Inspector General for the Department of State position when Hillary was in the position.
June 3, 2015
““Where Are All the Watchdogs?” to keep track of ongoing vacancies in the IG system. Our vacancy tracker shows how long IG offices have been headed by an acting official, and, in the case of IGs appointed by the President, how long a nominee has been waiting for Senate confirmation.
As of today,(June 3, 2015) there are seven vacancies at presidentially appointed IG positions, one vacancy at an agency-appointed position, and three nominees awaiting confirmation. The shortest vacancy is at the Central Intelligence Agency, which has gone 123 days without a permanent IG or a nominee. The longest vacancy is at the Interior Department, which has now gone almost 2,300 days without a permanent IG, making it the longest IG vacancy of the Obama Administration.”
The Department lacked a permanent watchdog for Hillary Clinton’s entire four-year tenure as Secretary of State, the longest vacancy since the position was created in 1957.
These excerpts are from an excellent article, written in 2015 on how Obama appointed “Acting” positions as watchdogs, thus bypassing senate approval.
“Rule by decree” is not really the language you want to use in America.
> “Rule by decree” is not really the language you want to use in America. <
Ha, yes. A better term might be “govern by executive order”. Which is pretty much the same thing.
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