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Federal offices are still waiting to hang Trump's picture
I can't say that I've missed them at all.
Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold
Trump was delighted by the offiicial photo during the shoot, telling aides he looked "like Churchill"
Link to tweet
Federal offices are still waiting to hang Trump’s picture
By Lisa Rein September 11 at 7:33 PM
In the lobby of every federal building, just inside security turnstiles and before the elevator banks, a framed photograph of the president has always hung on the wall.
Not so anymore. Months after Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, pictures of the president and Vice President Pence are missing from thousands of federal courthouses, laboratories, military installations, ports of entry, office suites and hallways, and from U.S. embassies abroad.
On the walls are empty picture hooks left when workers took down official portraits of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Jan. 20. Federal employees and visitors passing through the hallways since then have puzzled over the missing images, wondering why the traditional signal of the formal transition of power has yet to occur.
The changeover appears to be tangled in a bit of red tape and mystery. ... Federal agencies ordered photographs of their new commander in chief months ago. But they say they are still waiting for the Government Publishing Office, the printer of official portraits, to send them for distribution by the General Services Administration, which owns or leases 9,600 federal buildings across the country.
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Lisa Rein covers the federal workforce and issues that concern the management of government. Follow @Reinlwapo
By Lisa Rein September 11 at 7:33 PM
In the lobby of every federal building, just inside security turnstiles and before the elevator banks, a framed photograph of the president has always hung on the wall.
Not so anymore. Months after Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, pictures of the president and Vice President Pence are missing from thousands of federal courthouses, laboratories, military installations, ports of entry, office suites and hallways, and from U.S. embassies abroad.
On the walls are empty picture hooks left when workers took down official portraits of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Jan. 20. Federal employees and visitors passing through the hallways since then have puzzled over the missing images, wondering why the traditional signal of the formal transition of power has yet to occur.
The changeover appears to be tangled in a bit of red tape and mystery. ... Federal agencies ordered photographs of their new commander in chief months ago. But they say they are still waiting for the Government Publishing Office, the printer of official portraits, to send them for distribution by the General Services Administration, which owns or leases 9,600 federal buildings across the country.
....
Lisa Rein covers the federal workforce and issues that concern the management of government. Follow @Reinlwapo
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