Mallory Barg Bulman: Lessons learned about presidential transitions

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Mallory Barg Bulman: Lessons learned about presidential transitions

Though this has been one of the longest presidential transitions in recent history, the Partnership for Public Service it hasn't been so unusual. It has published...

September 6, 2017 11:12 am

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Last week, President Trump nominated 42 people to fill key Senate-confirmed roles throughout various agencies. Still though, this has been one of the longest presidential transitions in recent history. Case in point: about half of the Chief Information Officer posts throughout government are still empty. Based in part on the experience of this transition, the Partnership for Public Service has just published a how-to guide for political transitions. Mallory Barg Bulman, the Partnership’s vice president for research and evaluation, told Federal Drive‘s Jared Serbu about some of the lessons learned.