Trump’s Empty Cabinet

“A little more than a year ago, moments after he fired former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet, President Trump looked ahead optimistically to reshaping his Cabinet,” Politico reports.

“It hasn’t quite worked out that way. Instead, Trump has a Cabinet-by-default, many of whose members were simply the last man — or woman — standing after others pulled out of the running, declined the president’s job offers or couldn’t get through their nomination hearings.”

“The result is that the Trump administration’s senior ranks are comprised largely of individuals who were not, in many cases, the president’s first or even second choice to fill the post, but instead became the only logical choice after the competition evaporated.”