Oh Donald, do change- a lot.
The latest embarrassment:
WASHINGTON -- The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was unstaffed as of Friday as the three remaining employees departed this week, sources tell CBS News.
All three employees were holdovers from the Obama administration. The departures from the division -- one of four subdivisions within the OSTP -- highlight the different commitment to scientific research under Presidents Obama and Trump.
The article goes on to say that it's possible that other divisions will handle this work, which is true. It's also not comforting at all. Donald Trump has been completely incapable of guiding a legislative agenda so far, but the one area he has done some serious damage is in managing the bureaucracy. He has a skeletal White House staff, hasn't appointed a majority of the appointed positions in the government, and seems to just ignore stuff he doesn't care about. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is reportedly furious over not having much of a State Department. Now we have an office that deals with science, and it has no staff. I know though, science is for smart people, and that has no place in our administration.
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