Key Offices Gather Dust Amid Slowest Transition in Decades
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and SHARON LaFRANIERE
MARCH 12, 2017
WASHINGTON — At the State Department, the normally pulsating hub of executive offices is hushed and virtually empty. At the Pentagon, military missions in some of the world’s most troubled places are being run by a defense secretary who has none of his top team in place. And at departments like Treasury, Commerce and Health and Human Services, many senior posts remain vacant even as the agencies have been handed enormous tasks like remaking the nation’s health insurance system.
From the moment he was sworn in, President Trump faced a personnel crisis, starting virtually from scratch in lining up senior leaders for his administration. Seven weeks into the job, he is still hobbled by the slow start, months behind where experts in both parties, even some inside his administration, say he should be ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/us/politics/trump-administration.html
