Trump administration vacancies pose risk to national security during Iran escalation, experts say - The Washington Post

Speaking from the White House this week amid stoked tensions with Iran, President Trump was flanked by nearly a dozen men involved in our nation’s defense — a move meant to convey U.S. military might. “Our great American forces are prepared for anything,” Trump said. But three years into President Trump’s first term in the White House, and a week after a targeted airstrike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad, hundreds of positions in the administration remain empty or filled with temporary personnel....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/01/11/these-federal-jobs-are-crucial-us-policy-iran-remain-unfilled-by-trumps-team/