Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holdovers from previous administrations in the Trump administration

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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 04:07, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Holdovers from previous administrations in the Trump administration

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Holdovers from previous administrations in the Trump administration (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Cabinet secretaries and certain top leadership roles are political appointees who are generally expected to resign at the start of a new administration – it is not typical for them to be held over, like when Obama retained Robert Gates from the Bush administration. Under Secretaries, deputies, and heads of smaller agencies, however, are typically career bureaucrats who do not routinely change with each president, or only leave following a transition period. It is not noteworthy here that the Deputy Director of the Office of Business Liaison of the Department of Commerce has served in the administrations of the last four presidents or that Trump has not replaced the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Furthermore, many of these positions are for fixed terms: of course the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who is appointed to a five-year term, would be a holdover! The United States Postmaster General isn't even appointed by the president at all.

I see no point to having a list of non-political public servants who, entirely expectedly, did not leave their jobs or fixed-term seats with the new administration. Reywas92^Talk 22:11, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 22:11, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 22:11, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

• Delete Including non-political appointees and fixed term appointees among others makes this list less than informative, it makes it downright deceptive.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:30, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
• Delete An encyclopedia should not contain info on everything Trump does. Ktrimi991 (talk) 10:33, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Listing things that Trump hasn't (yet) besmirched with his lazy orange tentacles is a fruitless undertaking. The press has enough on its hands documenting the outrageous stuff he does; it usually doesn't have time for the things he hasn't done, though List of government positions the Trump administration has failed to fill might be a viable list. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:19, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. --SalmanZ (talk) 17:05, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.