{"id":672,"date":"2009-01-22T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/?p=672"},"modified":"2009-01-22T23:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T04:03:02","slug":"transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2009\/01\/22\/transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this has to be one of the most difficult periods to be a fed &#8211; we&#8217;ve got new management, but only a few actual political appointees (only one, in fact!), a handful of political non-appointees, and they&#8217;re not fully integrated yet. We know they want to go in different directions, and on the major things those are clear, but on the details they&#8217;re definitely not. We&#8217;re trying to react to the various provisions proposed in the competing stimulus bills, and despite the fact that the same party is in charge of the two branches, it&#8217;s not a given that we in the Executive will be completely on board with what Congress proposes. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and at some point they&#8217;re going to give us our actual budget for FY 2009 as well. You know, the fiscal year that started back on October 1st. So there&#8217;ll be that to deal with soon, too. <\/p>\n<p>At the moment, though, I&#8217;m running around like mad getting stuff together, analyzing and reacting, and generally trying to be helpful to management. With little to no clear direction, and a lot of guessing. Fun, fun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this has to be one of the most difficult periods to be a fed &#8211; we&#8217;ve got new management, but only a few actual political appointees (only one, in fact!), a handful of political non-appointees, and they&#8217;re not fully integrated yet. We know they want to go in different directions, and on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,41,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}