The Trump team appeared to know going into the inauguration that it could face a cavalcade of staffing issues due to its unconventional personnel choices
President Trump with former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, who resigned amid multiple ethics investigations. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images There are many albatrosses weighing down the grand deregulatory plans of the current administration — infighting, incompetency, investigations of grift — but perhaps the greatest weight on Trump’s grand vision for his presidency is turnover.
It’s a strange counterfactual to imagine the regulatory rollbacks of a Trump administration stocked with competent Randians, but all the turnover has certainly hurt the White House’s ability to get things done. “The disruption is highly consequential,” Max Stier, the CEO of a nonprofit that studies federal government management issues, told the New York Times. “When you lose a leader, it has a cascade effect throughout the organization.
According to documents obtained by Axios, the Trump team knew going into the inauguration that it could face a cavalcade of staffing issues due to its unconventional personnel choices. Axios reporters viewed almost 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents that reveal some problems that future staffers would face in their appointments or within the job. Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt was marked for “allegations of coziness with big energy companies.
Within the documents — prepared after Chris Christie was kicked off the transition team, and outsourced by Mike Pence to the Republican National Committee — there’s an entire genre that could be called “red flags for candidates who said mean things about Trump.” Nikki Haley was flagged for saying Trump is everything “we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten,” while Ryan Zinke was marked for calling him “un-defendable.
Two near misses stand out: Ari Emanuel, Hollywood agent and brother of Obama’s first chief of staff.
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