He has left “acting” officials in charge of the huge bureaucracies for months at a time without selecting replacements. One is that Democrats at the time had been telegraphing a push to use an obscure federal law to force the IRS to share Trump’s long-hidden tax returns. And given the law’s obscurity, there will almost definitely be a protracted legal battle that would involve the IRS chief counsel. Adding to the intrigue is a fast-emerging pattern of Trump installing people who have publicly taken his side on some issues of very serious interest — and often very personal interest — to Trump. But these are all issues in which Trump has a very vested personal interest.

Source: Washington Post April 05, 2019 13:56 UTC