Trump in no rush to nominate Cabinet heads, says acting ones are more flexible

[Borealis]

https://www.axios.com/trump-acting-cabinet-heads-more-flexibility-d708dcb6-967b-42ba-97dc-9b1cf1d30aaf.html

President Trump told reporters outside the White House on Sunday that he’s "in no hurry" to replace his acting Cabinet secretaries with formal replacements, saying, "I have acting, and
my actings are doing really great. ... I sort of like acting. It gives me more flexibility, do you understand that?"

Trump's attorney general, secretaries of Defense and Interior, EPA head, and UN ambassador are all working in acting capacities, despite being Senate-confirmed positions. The
appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, in particular, came under fire as potentially unconstitutional — even from conservative legal scholars like John Yoo.

And the Washington Post reported this week that Patrick Shanahan's position as acting Defense secretary could also be constitutionally murky. Furthermore, Trump, who campaigned
on "draining the swamp," faced criticism for his acting secretaries' lobbying ties.

Mitch continuing to take Trump's flagrant disregard for the Senate's job like a bitch.

[Sableye]

when did mitch ever not disregard the senate's duty? all he's done since reaching the head republican in the senate has been to break down everything

[elix]

What Trump really means is he is unwilling to let his ego face the same bruising as it did when Kavanaugh was shoved into office with a hell of a lot of friction. He doesn't trust the Senate to confirm anyone he wants without making it a two-week circus that ultimately makes him bad, and since they won't just smile and rubber stamp his toady nominees he has no use for them and is content to abuse the system with acting cabinet heads.

He wants everyone to believe he'll face down North Korea and make them blink but a Republican-controlled Senate who got him what he wanted in the end made him blink.

What a fucking pussy. I bet I could intimidate him with a pool noodle.

[Jaguar]

Is it possible to impeach senators?

[Borealis]

They can be expelled by the body, need's a 2/3 majority. The last to be expelled were expelled for supporting the Confederacy, more recent people under expellation trials resigned first.

[JohnnyMo]

"Wooow if I just replace having check and balances with installing people I control, everything seems to go the way I want!" -Man who is not a dictator, 2019

[Splash Attack]

Can an acting Cabinet Secretary hold the position indefinitely?

[Sableye]

yes because congress has abdicated so much of their duty in and been so paranoid with making the presidency as flexible as possible it is possible to continually temporarily appoint someone but there are serious legal problems that crop up because they are not the permanent head of their agency/department, good example is that when trump fired sessions and appointed someone who they're still not really certain could fill the role, the doj has been sued by people who are being prosecuted for federal crimes as technically all prosecutions are brought by the attorney general