White House in crisis
Fri May 19, 2017 | 9:22pm EDT
James Oliphant | WASHINGTON
... it’s getting lonely at the top ...
... failure to fill senior roles at federal agencies means he does not have a cadre of loyalists ... That has worsened the isolation of the White House in a city that relies on friends and allies ...
The result is problems on multiple fronts: a government whose bonds with Congress, federal agencies and the public look increasingly fractured; an ambitious but stalled program of reforms; and a president whose low approval ratings threaten his party’s control of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections ...
Many top State Department posts .. remain vacant. One consequence .. is that department experts played little role in briefing Trump for his telephone call to.. Putin or his meeting with .. Lavrov and .. Kislyak, where .. he disclosed .. classified intelligence ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-isolated-analysis-idUSKCN18G013
