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Presidential Transitions: Executive Branch Political Appointment Status (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 30, 2024
Report Number IF12721
Report Type In Focus
Authors Henry B. Hogue
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The status of incumbent political appointees during presidential transitions has often been of interest to Congress. In some instances, appointees of an outgoing President have continued to serve into a new Administration. These appointees might not share the new President’s policy preferences or readily implement the new Administration’s policy agenda. This dynamic has usually arisen when the tenure of a confirmed political appointee extends into a new Administration as a result of fixed-term provisions intended to insulate the appointee from the policy preferences of the President. In other cases, appointees have been installed in such positions in the waning days of a presidency through a recess appointment, although this practice has not been used since 2000.