The National Security Council reflects the chaos: Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser hired after<br />Michael Flynn’s firing, inherited a council of career staff members and nervous, often unqualified Flynn loyalists.<br />None of this is surprising to people familiar with Mr. Trump’s managerial style, a kind of mom-and-pop approach involving a tiny knot of family members and loyalists<br />that is poorly suited to a federal government with three million employees around the world.<br />Home Alone in the Trump Administration -<br />By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMARCH 3, 2017<br />President Trump has appointed fewer than three dozen of the top 1,000 officials he needs to run the federal government.<br />This means the White House has to get cracking, especially to fill roles vital to national security and the economy.<br />The federal agencies are effectively run by Trump “beachhead” teams, some 600 people<br />who mostly are campaign donors, Trump employees, pals or allied politicos.<br />Other cabinet officials, including Rex Tillerson at the State Department, have encountered hurdles at the White House.<br />Many know little about the agencies they inhabit, and they are understandably resented by career staff members.
