ThoughtCrimes
Old Navy Vet
One of the most important functions of our Federal government is national defense and readiness. Anyone disagreeing with that premise, speak up and make your case, but STAY ON TOPIC.
Instead of taking care of business and getting people into critical positions in our defense structure for the sake of readiness, the Orange One "reset" our national priorities to accomplish his alleged "campaign promises" while filling the government with necessary personnel was pushed aside. That has really made the defense contractors happy while plans for new systems and renewal of contracts sit gathering dust wanting for bosses to be hired to check off the boxes. Great Job, Donny Johnny!
FY 2017 ends Sept 31st, and the Congress has the new FY 2018 budget to prepare, finished and set in place, to say nothing of the debt limit to deal with and all the other end of session issues to deal with. The Country is burning, but the Idiot-in-Chief is still fiddling in between rounds of golf, while playing Russian Roulette with countries hostile to the US, trying to look presidential!
"WASHINGTON — A handful of Pentagon nominees will be waiting for Senate confirmation when the upper chamber returns in September from its summer recess, but the administration still has dozens of Defense Department positions to fill.
After clearing partisan deadlock on health care reform, the Senate confirmed 65 nominees by unanimous consent. Those included investment banker Richard Spencer to be Navy secretary and former Textron CEO Ellen Lord to be undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, roughly doubling the total to 15 confirmed out of 57 positions.
That’s about 74 percent of Defense Department positions that need Senate confirmation yet to be filled. Nominees for the high-level jobs of Army secretary, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and undersecretary of defense for policy have yet to be confirmed." -- More --
~~ Top Pentagon posts 74 percent vacant as Congress returns ~~
Instead of taking care of business and getting people into critical positions in our defense structure for the sake of readiness, the Orange One "reset" our national priorities to accomplish his alleged "campaign promises" while filling the government with necessary personnel was pushed aside. That has really made the defense contractors happy while plans for new systems and renewal of contracts sit gathering dust wanting for bosses to be hired to check off the boxes. Great Job, Donny Johnny!
FY 2017 ends Sept 31st, and the Congress has the new FY 2018 budget to prepare, finished and set in place, to say nothing of the debt limit to deal with and all the other end of session issues to deal with. The Country is burning, but the Idiot-in-Chief is still fiddling in between rounds of golf, while playing Russian Roulette with countries hostile to the US, trying to look presidential!
"WASHINGTON — A handful of Pentagon nominees will be waiting for Senate confirmation when the upper chamber returns in September from its summer recess, but the administration still has dozens of Defense Department positions to fill.
After clearing partisan deadlock on health care reform, the Senate confirmed 65 nominees by unanimous consent. Those included investment banker Richard Spencer to be Navy secretary and former Textron CEO Ellen Lord to be undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, roughly doubling the total to 15 confirmed out of 57 positions.
That’s about 74 percent of Defense Department positions that need Senate confirmation yet to be filled. Nominees for the high-level jobs of Army secretary, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and undersecretary of defense for policy have yet to be confirmed." -- More --
~~ Top Pentagon posts 74 percent vacant as Congress returns ~~