High number of Trump political appointees sought permanent jobs in final year

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You can see in the number of non-approvals by OPM that there are a bunch of political appointees who sought career jobs that are clearly problematic. Why are these people coming into these jobs only after the candidate who wanted them there has lost?

High number of Trump political appointees sought permanent jobs in final year
Many of the attempted conversions made in the period between Election Day and Joe Biden’s inauguration did not move forward, according to documents obtained by NBC News.
nbcnews.com
11:48 AM · Apr 10, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/high-number-trump-political-appointees-sought-permanent-jobs-final-year-n1262234

The number of political appointees who sought permanent positions in the final year of former President Donald Trump’s term outpaced the number who did so under his predecessor during the same time frame, according to documents obtained by NBC News.

Fifty-eight Trump administration appointees sought conversion from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan 20, 2021, according to the Office of Personnel Management documents. Of those, 31 conversions were approved, six were denied, 15 were returned or withdrawn, and six remained pending. During the corresponding period under former President Barack Obama — Jan. 1, 2016 to Jan. 20, 2017 — 46 appointees sought conversion, with 36 approved, six denied and four returned or withdrawn.

All but one of the 13 Trump administration political appointees who sought permanent civil service jobs in the weeks between President Joe Biden’s election and inauguration were not approved, according to the OPM reports obtained by NBC News for the last quarter of 2020 and the first 20 days of January. Five requests were withdrawn or returned and six remained pending and under review by the OPM. By comparison, nine of the 11 Obama administration political appointees who requested approval for conversion to civil service jobs from Election Day 2016 through Trump’s inauguration were approved.

At least one of those attempted conversions during that period under Trump was denied by the OPM because the agency said it couldn’t conclude the attempted appointment was free of “political influence,” according to the documents.

The OPM tracks such conversion requests on a quarterly basis and subsequently provides the information to members of Congress. NBC News previously reported on the Trump administration’s conversions through the first three quarters of 2020.

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