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Help Wanted: The Trump Administration (Still) Has Some Openings To Fill

This administration has fewer confirmed nominees in place than any of its predecessors.

President Trump starts the second hundred days of his administration Sunday with a perhaps unwelcome benchmark: fewer appointees in place than any of his recent predecessors.

Only a fraction of the hundreds of key jobs the Trump administration needs to fill have been nominated and confirmed by the Senate. The nonpartisan Partnership For Public Service and of those positions, just 25 have been confirmed by Terry Sullivan, executive director of , calls it a "really, really slow performance," with many contributing factors.

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