Trump Begins Naming Lower Level Management Nominees

Government Executive: President Trump on Thursday nominated two more appointees to serve in his administration, one as a top ranking Veterans Affairs Department official and another to head Customs and Border Protection.

Trump put forward more than two dozen names in March to serve in deputy, assistant and under secretary roles, as well as leaders at the component agency level. That's just a fraction of the roughly 4,000 total political appointees across government—including the nearly 1,100 who will require Senate confirmation—and is still short of where the Obama administration was at this point.

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