According to Trump, in spite of the fact that the Republican are in charge of both houses of Congress and he has not been nominating people to key positions, and some whom he has nominated may not be all that willing to join his administration, he tweeted on Monday,
“ Dems are taking forever to approve my people, including Ambassadors. They are nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS! Want approvals.
However, the reality is that, in spite of having to fill 559 key positions, he has only nominated 117 people to fill the open spots, and of the 53 positions at the Pentagon, he has only filled 5,
He claimed he had been considering firing Comey before he fired him from the FBI, but apparently, during his deliberations, he hadn’t considered a replacement.
Part of his problem is that he insists that those he is considering nominating, must declare loyalty to him, and part of that loyalty is that they must have never said anything against him. So when it is remembered that last August the majority of senior Republican national security officials signed a letter saying they would not vote for Trump and an additional 120 national security leaders had signed a similar letter a few months before, there are a lot of people automatically out of the running.
So, as much as Trump and his people say that President Obama’s people are fighting against him in some “deep state” secret government, so many unfilled positions dealing with national security and defense are held by holdovers.
You can’t consider nominees until they are nominated.
Trump might want to blame the Democrat for the administration’s bottle neck, but he is clearly the problem.