The White House is also conducting a review of each of the Cabinet agencies’ protocols in the event that someone needs to take over authority
Following the defence secretary’s previously undisclosed absence, the White House issued a new set of procedures to Cabinet members if their duties can’t be performed.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalisation arose from complications of a procedure for prostate cancer, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.
Hours earlier, the White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told Cabinet secretaries in a memo, obtained by the Associated Press, that if the Cabinet members need to re-delegate authority, they must notify his office and Offices of Cabinet Affairs and White House Chief of Staff.
Mr Zients added that the White House will be “conducting a review of agency protocols for a delegation of authority.” Each department is required to submit its current protocols by Friday 12 January to the Office of Cabinet Affairs, the memo added.
I have to access my jobs site every morning so it logs me in and they know I’m working. The SecDef can just go AWOL and nothing happens? How necessary is this dude if no one realized he was gone for a week?
Like most bosses they’re not really doing anything required for day-to-day operations. As a society we are over-administered and over-managed.
Are we even tracking their work Tickets for progress? /s