April 27, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
Joe Biden has ambitious plans for his next 100 days in office — but only if the summer curse doesn’t derail him. “Every president who’s smart focuses on a small number of priorities, their affirmative agenda and then they typically get knocked back on their heels by the world around them,” said Max Stier, president...
April 27, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
#15: Senate Confirmations. Personnel is policy, which means that putting the right people in place is essential. The Biden administration is beating its predecessor by that yardstick, but that’s not saying a lot. Moving forward, Biden’s ability to fill these positions will not only set the pace for policy implementation; it will also serve as...
April 24, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
“It’s hard to move many things simultaneously through the Senate, and you have a president who is rightly first focused on Covid relief and next focused on infrastructure,” said Max Stier, who leads the Partnership for Public Service, which champions a more effective federal work force. “I worry that important issues like ethics reform don’t...
April 25, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
By the numbers: Biden has only announced 10 ambassadors, of the roughly 190 open positions, including Linda Thomas-Greenfield as his UN ambassador.
April 23, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
A House lawmaker plans to reintroduce a bill that would reform the rules on acting officials serving in top federal roles. Max Stier also stated that reforms are “absolutely” still warranted. “I think that the challenges that we saw in the last administration revealed weaknesses in the vacancies act and therefore they ought to be...
April 20, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
Increased levels of staffing, higher pay, and more opportunities for advancement and career growth are necessary to staunch the flow of talent heading out the door, said Kristine Simmons of the Partnership for Public Service.
April 16, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
With four more executive-branch nominees confirmed this week, the Senate has now confirmed 33 of President Joe Biden’s selections to key executive-branch positions, as tracked by the Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service. That still leaves hundreds of positions open, but overall he appears headed toward one of the best marks over the last 40 years.
April 15, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition said in a new report that despite the vast challenges, the Biden team executed “one of the most extensively planned transitions, as well as the first-ever virtual transition.”
April 14, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
The Partnership for Public Service’ Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan group that works with presidential transition teams from both parties during the election year, is out with a new report on Biden’s transition, calling it “one of the most well-planned transitions in history.”
April 10, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
Fifty-eight Trump administration appointees sought conversion from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan 20, 2021, according to the Office of Personnel Management documents. “You can see in the number of non-approvals by OPM that there are a bunch of political appointees [who sought career jobs] that are clearly problematic,” Max Stier, CEO of the nonpartisan Partnership...