WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan, breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods.
The mandate — issued “without exceptions,” according to a terse State Department cable sent on Dec. 23, diplomats who saw it said — threatens to leave the United States without Senate-confirmed envoys for months in critical nations like Germany, Canada and Britain. In the past, administrations of both parties have often granted extensions on a case-by-case basis to allow a handful of ambassadors, particularly those with school-age children, to remain in place for weeks or months.
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Update #1: Report: Trump orders Obama ambassadors to leave posts by inauguration (The Hill)
Update #2: Trump won't give grace period to Obama's ambassadors (Politico)
WNU Editor: Another sign that indicates that President-elect Trump wants to complete eradicate everything about the Obama White House on day one.
5 comments:
In the past when Reagan was elected some ambo hanger-ons bad mouthed the new president. Certainly a solution can be found for the rare conflict. The appointees by their nature are hard core supporters.
Drain the swamp.
Also puts the pressure on the Senate to expedite confirmations.
In the past when Reagan was elected some ambo hanger-ons bad mouthed the new president. Certainly a solution can be found for the rare conflict. The appointees by their nature are hard core supporters.
308 Ambassadors, and it ususally takes a year for the House and Senate to hold comfirmation hearings for all the posts, if they like the appointees.
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