President elect Donald Trump has already named 10 nominees for cabinet positions but his transition team at agency levels is running slow. This has caused concern for the Obama administration fearing that the changeover will not go as should be expected.
Trump's expected review teams for low profile agency work that need to work with career bureaucrats have not been put in place. This will result to difficulties for the incoming administration.
Obama's transition teams are saying that their counterparts in the incoming Trump administration have not appeared in many instances that required their presence at some agencies. Critical are the agencies handling infrastructure, immigration and Obamacare.
Politico said that sources from the Department of Labor mentioned that only one out of four Trump's transition team members assigned to the Labor Department has reported. Employees hope that the Trump transition teams at agency levels promptly attend to their assigned taks.
Political aides are set to resign by January 20 so the career public servants are expecting trump transition teams to appear so they can start the turnover process. At the U.S. Agency for International Development, not a single Trump transition representative has appeared.
The same is true at the Environmental Protection Agency where only one Trump transition person has visited in late November but he has not been back ever since. The Trump transition camp has not given any comment regarding this matter.
As reported by Newsday, Donald Trump's number of nominees has climbed up to ten after his nomination of Marine Gen. John Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as EPA chief. He is right on target when it comes to appointing cabinet positions but is lagging behind in naming key members that will handle the agency level transition.
There have been some efforts in the Air Force and Department of Energy with transition teams conducting interviews. In the National Security Council, not all the transition team members have been cleared to access classified data. The administration of President Barack Obama hopes that the transition phase could go smoothly and faster.
