The Trump administration is increasingly turning to delegation — an obscure bureaucratic tactic that passes authority down to subordinates — to fill top government jobs without Senate confirmation. Critics say that may violate federal law.
Also at the Department of Homeland Security, there's Randolph"Tex" Alles, who's serving as the senior official performing the duties of the under secretary for management. At the Department of the Interior, William Perry Pendley is serving as the deputy director of policy programs at the Bureau of Land Management,"exercising the authority" of the director.
William Perry Pendley at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., last October. Pendley is serving as the deputy director of policy programs at the Bureau of Land Management,"exercising the authority" of the director.William Perry Pendley at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., last October. Pendley is serving as the deputy director of policy programs at the Bureau of Land Management,"exercising the authority" of the director.
But the Trump administration has never formally nominated Cuccinelli — or many of these other controversial officials — for the jobs they're doing, so there's nothing for the Senate to vote on.
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