NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rep. Tom Marino is the eleventh nominee to withdraw from consideration for a Trump administration post, according to CNN’s nomination tracker…
Once he formally withdraws, Marino will become the twelfth recalled nomination by the Trump administration. This number is not unprecedented, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that tracks federal nominations and provides data for CNN’s tracker. James Clinger was nominated as both Chair and Board Member of FDIC, so he’s counted twice by PPS. At this point in his tenure, former President Barack Obama had seen eleven withdrawn nominations, too.
However, ‘relative to the number of confirmed people, Trump’s percentage of failed nominations is very high,’ Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, told CNN. Trump has 174 confirmed nominees; Obama, former President George W. Bush, and former President Bill Clinton all had well over 300 at this point in their first term.
The lag in successful nominations is bound to have a negative effect on the administration’s effectiveness, Stier said…
Trump has both complained about the slow pace of confirmation for his nominees and argued he is intentionally nominating fewer people to cull the size of government.”
-Jennifer Hansler, “Almost a dozen Trump nominees have withdrawn from consideration for administration jobs,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Oct. 17, 2017 02:07pm