Posted on 11/11/2016 7:55:09 AM PST by EBH
November 06, 2016 • Making News
More than 4,000 political appointees, many of whom hold important leadership and policymaking positions, will be heading out the door next year with the change in administrations. Finding qualified people to fill these jobs is an enormous undertaking, but it is critically important to making the federal government work effectively for the American public.
There are four basic types of appointments: •Presidential Appointments with Senate Confirmation (PAS): There are 1,212 senior leaders, including the Cabinet secretaries and their deputies, the heads of most independent agencies and ambassadors, who must be confirmed by the Senate. These positions first require a Senate hearing in addition to background checks and other vetting. •Presidential Appointments without Senate Confirmation (PA): There are 353 PA positions which make up much of the White House staff, although they are also scattered throughout many of the smaller federal agencies. •Non-career Senior Executive Service (NA): Members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) work in key positions just below the top presidential appointees, bridging the gap between the political leaders and the civil service throughout the federal government. Most SES members are career officials, but up to 10 percent of the SES can be political appointees. (For more information see the Office of Personnel Management’s website.) There are 680 non-career members of the SES. •Schedule C Appointments (SC): There are 1,403 Schedule C appointees who serve in a confidential or policy role. They range from schedulers and confidential assistants to policy experts.
Source: Plum Book, Government Printing Office, December
Among other things, the chart below shows high numbers of PAS positions in the State and Justice Departments. That’s due to the hundreds of ambassadors, U.S. Attorneys, and U.S. Marshals, all of whom require Senate confirmation. You can also see that nearly a third of the total number of PA positions are concentrated in the Executive Office of the President.
The scale and breadth of the task of making so many critical appointments is daunting, and underscores the need for transition teams to get started early in order to fully staff the leadership of the next administration.
First Posted on Center for Presidential Transition
Trump has the luxury of getting qualified people.
Day 1: Fire all political appointees.
Make the rest of the Civil Service think hard about early retirement.
More than 4,000 political appointees,...
This article just started off bad right from the start.
whittle it down to 1000 and i bet no one misses the other 3k
This is rediculous. The government has become too big.
Obama will have transitioned the appointees to civil service before DJT takes the oath.
Beware the moles.
Moles? It is straight from the official transition page!
I’ve been in the software industry for 30+ yrs doing everything from design to development. Analysis to CTO.
I’d like to help out in two areas; the Wall and working on improving the vote in this country.
Who do we reach out to if we want to help?
For Trump's political appointees, whom will also need qualifications beyond ideological loyalty, how about a few guys to just look at security clearances of current officials leaving government service.
I am especially thinking of current White House policy czars, such as the ~33 imams placed in foreign policy positions - as “outreach advisers”.
Would love to see the communications from these guys. I would bet that the paltry nature of what documentation is left to be cleaned finer than Hill's email system.
Not a yoga email among them.
I want the job of replacing the Obama and Biden official photos in every federal office with Trump and Pence photos.
I would probably have to commute all the way from West Virginia if I wanted to work in DC.
(For more information see the Office of Personnel Management’s website.)
Most of the federal civil service is crying.
Except at ICE and CBP - the veteran line officers there are probably grinning from ear to ear, looking forward to being able to do their job for the first time in a decade.
Trump should do what Reagan could not (because he didn’t have Congress), cut the size of the FedGov Leviathan.
What about all those federal employees that said they would quit if Trump were elected?
GTFO!
Govt GS-8-12 types make about $75-150 thousand annually. Clinton won that salary range big-time. Bloated government payroll of salaried wonks and Czars. Get them Off the boat! They’ll surely run back to academia or lastly to McDonalds. Purge em!
I seem to remember that Lincoln ran the entire Civil War with less than 100 government employees.
I would like to see Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” get a post in the Trump Administration. He is a straight-up American who knows the value of work and common sense.
They need to fix the confirmation process before you will get the best qualified to take these jobs. It is really public service and we thank people for their service by investigating them, suing them and slandering them.
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