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The White House Presidential Personnel Office
(PPO, sometimes written as Office of Presidential Personnel) is the
White House Office tasked with vetting new appointees.[1][2]
Its offices are on the first floor of the
Eisenhower Executive Office Building in
Washington, D.C.[2]
The PPO is one of the offices most responsible for assessing candidates to work
at or for the
White
House.[3]
The PPO is currently made up of about 30 members, which is only about one third
of its usual staff. This office is responsible for approximately 4,000 jobs, of
which 1,600 require Senate approval.[4]
The White House Presidential Office recruits candidates to serve in departments
and agencies throughout the Executive Branch. It presents candidates for PAS
positions to the Senate which must also be approved by the President of the
United States.[5]
The mission of this office is to provide the president with the best applicants
possible for presidency-appointed positions. Lastly, it also provides policy
guidance for federal department and agency heads on conduct for political
activities.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Presidential_Personnel_Office
Dated Thursday March 1, 2001: Recruiting
Executive Branch Leaders: The Office of Presidential Personnel
Despite the demise of the spoils system about which Garfield was complaining,
the demand for government jobs after each presidential election continues to be
a hallmark of American politics. It took the assassination of President Garfield
by one of the vultures, deranged office-seeker Charles Guiteau, to galvanize
Congress to pass the Pendleton Act in 1883 establishing the merit system of
civil service. But remaining atop the executive bureaucracy was and is a layer
of political officers, a layer that has grown thicker in recent years
The Constitution vests the “executive power” in the president and commands that
“the laws be faithfully executed.” To fulfill this responsibility each president
appoints the major officers of the government. The government’s ability to carry
out its primary functions depends crucially on capable civil servants, whose
effectiveness is intimately tied to the quality of the leadership of the
executive branch, that is, presidential appointments.
Each new president who comes to office appoints thousands of men and women to
help lead the executive branch. While the career civil servants who work under
their direction are recruited on a continual basis by the Office of Personnel
Management and individual agencies, the leaders themselves are recruited by the
White House Office of Presidential Personnel, which is formed anew by each
president. The obligations of the OPP are threefold—to serve the nation by
recruiting executive branch leaders, to serve the president by finding qualified
loyalists, and to shepherd nominees through the sometimes treacherous
appointment process.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/recruiting-executive-branch-leaders-the-office-of-presidential-personnel/
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January 22:
Trump's 24-year-old drug appointee has inaccuracies
in his resume
Taylor Weyeneth, who Trump appointed to the White House drug policy office had a
resume filled with misinformation
He claimed that he had worked as a legal assistant at
the law firm O’Dwyer & Bernstien until April 2016, even though he had been
discharged in August 2015 for repeatedly failing to show up for work.
Weyeneth, who currently serves as deputy chief of staff at the White House drug
policy office, also had to repeatedly revise how his resume represented his work
as a volunteer at a monastery in Queens. He initially claimed he had volunteered
there for 275 hours, then 150 hours and finally omitted all references to that
monastery. He also claimed that he had served for three years as vice president
of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, even though a fraternity spokesman said he had
only been in that position for a year and a half.
Weyeneth has yet to revise his resume to reflect that he has not yet completed
his master’s degree coursework at Fordham University. The resumes all claim that
he has his master's degree from there.
The Trump White House has repeatedly struggled with a series of appointments
that have seemed to go to absurdly underqualified or downright unqualified
candidates. The most conspicuous example of this has been in the realm of
judicial appointments, with nominees like Matthew Petersen, Jeff Mateer and
Brett Talley,
according to The New York Times
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/22/trumps-24-year-old-drug-appointee-has-inaccuracies-in-his-resume/
March 30: From the start, Trump’s
appointments lagged far behind those of prior administrations. By June 20, 2017,
the Senate had confirmed only 44 appointees, compared with 170 for Obama and 130
for Bush in the same time period, according to Pfiffner.
“It is a disaster,” Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government
Ethics, told The Post.
One of the newcomers was a former Trump campaign worker named Caroline Wiles.
Wiles, then 30, is the daughter of Susan Wiles, a prominent lobbyist and
political operative in Florida. Caroline Wiles joined the Trump administration
as a deputy assistant to the president and director of scheduling in the White
House. News accounts said she was one of six White House staffers dismissed for
failing FBI backgrounds checks, but the White House official would not confirm
that. She was eventually moved to the PPO, where she was made a special
assistant to the president, a post that typically pays $115,000.
The younger Wiles has an unusual background for a senior White House
official. On a résumé she submitted to the state of Florida, she said she had
completed course work at Flagler College in Florida. On her LinkedIn page, she
simply lists Flagler under education. A Flagler spokesman said she never
finished her degree.
“She did not continue her enrollment or graduate from here,” spokesman Brian
Thompson said.
Wiles has had a string of political jobs, including work at her mother’s
lobbying firm and as a campaign aide for candidates her mother advised,
including Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and Trump. She also worked for an
education organization that helped provide health care to needy students.
Over the years, she has had multiple encounters with police. In 2005, she had
her driver’s license suspended for driving while intoxicated, police records
show. In 2007, she was arrested for driving while intoxicated and arrested for
passing a “worthless check.” She was found guilty of a misdemeanor for driving
under the influence. The charge related to the bad check was dropped in a plea
agreement.
Wiles did not respond to requests for interviews.
In an interview, speaking on the condition of anonymity, a White House official
praised Caroline Wiles, the special assistant to the president, saying she had
demonstrated her competence as a scheduler and organizer during the Trump
campaign.
“We do feel confident in her ability,” the official said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/behind-the-chaos-office-that-vets-trump-appointees-plagued-by-inexperience/2018/03/30/cde31a1a-28a3-11e8-ab19-06a445a08c94_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5ccb227c5529
March 30: Another special assistant to the president is Max Miller, 29, a Marine
reservist and former Trump campaign worker…Miller said he attended Cleveland
State University from 2007 to 2011. A Cleveland State spokesman confirmed that
Miller, who previously attended other schools, graduated in 2013… In 2007, he
was charged with assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after punching
another male in the back of the head and running away from police, police
records show…In 2009, he was charged with underage drinking, a case that also
was later dismissed under a first offenders’ program. The following year, he
pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge related to another altercation in
Cleveland Heights, Ohio. That episode was related to a fight involving Miller
shortly after leaving a hookah bar at about 2 a.m. one morning. During the
fight, Miller punched through a glass door, cut his wrist and left a trail of
blood as he wandered off, a police report said.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/vodka-chugging-20-somethings-are-vetting-the-white-house.html?gtm=top>m=top
March 30:
In January Weyeneth was let go,
according to The Washington Post, but there were still questions about how
someone as unqualified and demonstrably dishonest as him was able to get hired
in the first place. Was it a fluke occasion in which someone dropped the ball?
A piece of that puzzle may have fallen into place on Friday, when
The Washington Post reported that the Presidential Personnel Office — which
is responsible for finding and vetting thousands of political appointees — is
understaffed and run by young people who treat the office like their own
personal frat house.
Of course, the worst appointment of all may be a candidate with no governmental
experience whatsoever, a
long history of alleged sexual misconduct, a
business
track record that has led to thousands of lawsuits, more
racist and
sexist comments than are easy to record and a resume that had as its most
recent highlights a stint as a reality TV star.
Good thing that person doesn't have too much power, right?
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/30/the-white-house-personnel-office-is-basically-a-frat-house/
April 2: New report helps explain Trump
World’s many vetting failures
There are 652 key positions in the executive branch that require Senate
confirmation, and as of this morning, Donald Trump’s White House hasn’t
nominated anyone
for one-third of those posts. Making matters slightly worse, when the
president does choose people for vacancies, it often seems as if the White House
hasn’t made any serious attempt at vetting these nominees before they reach
Capitol Hill for consideration.
And why is Team Trump failing so spectacularly in this area? The Washington
Post answered that question
in amazing detail over the weekend, taking a closer look at Trump’s White
House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) and its role “hobbling the Trump
administration’s efforts to place qualified people in key posts across
government.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-report-helps-explain-trump-worlds-many-vetting-failures
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