![]() The Trump government’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) proposed the rule earlier this year and set a comment deadline of September 16. That would fulfill a goal of the anti-worker religious right, progressive analysts note.Īnd since those enterprises can range all the way from Boeing, Ford, and Amazon down to a small religiously-run daycare program in South Carolina – previously sanctioned for refusing to hire non-“Christians” – the DOL rule could have a wide impact. WASHINGTON-Disregarding popular opposition, especially from civil libertarians and the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender community, the GOP Trump-run Labor Department appears ready to OK discrimination in hiring – based on religion, gender orientation or both – by enterprises that receive federal contracts. At all.Trump's new labor department rules would allow companies not to hire or to fire LGBTQ people based on the religious belief of the employer. But what’s beyond debate is that his much-touted hiring skills are, well, not very skillful. Whether you think that is a good thing likely depends on how you feel about Trump. And he handicapped himself even further when he dumped Chris Christie as the head of his presidential transition team and replaced the former New Jersey governor with incoming Vice President Mike Pence.Īs Trump’s presidency has worn on, he has tended to revert back to what he knows when it comes to hiring: Elevating people – Mike Pompeo being the shining example – who are relentless advocates for him, never raising a question or blinking an eye at what Trump says and does. The truth is that Trump had absolutely no idea what he was doing in hiring for the top spots in his administration. Trump’s business background was less defined by savvy hires than reliance on a handful of yes men and women as well as his blood relatives. Trump’s first term in office has proven the lie in that perception. He wasn’t like all of these bloated bureaucrats in Washington! He’d bring in the only the best people! His success in business was regarded as proof of that judgment. Trump was, to many voters, the guy from “The Apprentice” – a tough and savvy boss who knew who had “it” and who didn’t. “I am self funding and will hire the best people, not the biggest donors!,” Trump pledged in April 2016. In August 2015, after parting ways with on-again, off-again political adviser Roger Stone, Trump told The Washington Post this: “I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people. THE POINT - NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. (Here’s a longer list of former senior staff Trump has attacked.) It’s that he made his business acumen – and, specifically, his hiring skills – as a central selling point during the 2016 campaign! Or even that Trump is badmouthing some of his most high-profile hires. That’s the highest rate of departure in a first term since at least Ronald Reagan.Īnd it’s not just that Trump’s administration is turning over at historically high rates. Just six of Trump’s original Cabinet members remain in their jobs today: Sonny Perdue (Agriculture), Betsy Devos (Education), Steve Mnuchin (Treasury) Elaine Chao (Transportation), Ben Carson (Housing) and Wilbur Ross (Commerce).Īccording to Brookings’ Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, 88% of the “most influential positions within the executive office of the president” have turned over as of June 8. ![]() The amount of turnover in just Trump’s first three years in office is stunning. ![]() “He did not have experience at running government and didn’t know how to put together a team that could work well with him.” “If there was one criticism that I would level against the President is he didn’t hire very well,” said Trump’s former acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on CNN Friday morning, in one of the great understatements of 2020 so far. Surely, the person tasked with making this series of disastrous hires – at the highest levels of Trump’s administration – has also been fired? Well, no. Those are President Donald Trump’s assessments of his former national security adviser, former defense secretary, former Attorney General, former chief of staff and former Secretary of State, respectively. Jeff Sessions was “ not mentally qualified.” Jim Mattis was the “ the world’s most overrated general” whose “primary strength was not military, but rather personal public relations.” John Bolton is a “wacko” and a “sick puppy.”
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