Lots. Lots not confirmed and lots not named. And you are right about his not planning to fill them all, but then he ends up with departments that don’t deliver on his policies. The biggest one of course is Justice. But State and Defense are that way as well. Of course, listening to Javanka on a lot of top hires, since they brought in a lot of Never Trump Manhattan liberals, made that something of a moot point.
Mulvaney is a great hire, and I hope he can straighten out the rest of it. Because it outwardly looks like he’s continuing on a somewhat questionable path of replacing Swamp with Swamp in too many areas.
God bless him, he’s taken on a Herculean task. But he has also made that task harder for himself especially with his hires.
Most Freepers may not know this, but in many of these cases the nominee's name hasn't even been formally submitted to the Senate for confirmation yet.
There was a months-long delay in the appointment process for the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in 2017. Robert Wood Johnson -- the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune and neighbor of Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey -- was named to this post in early 2017, but his nomination wasn't even submitted to the Senate for months because his immense wealth made his background check so complicated and time-consuming.