i'll repost next bread so more people can see it, but acting appointees at whatever level are time limited. they have 210 days from when the position opens, not when they're appointed, to do work. the real problem comes with senate confirmations, they can, and over the last 3 admins have, slow walked appointees out of spite. they can do this because senate rules allow them to expedite the nomination, taking the motion from the floor and voting on it right away. but if a single senator objects, it goes to a committee to be discussed before its brought back to the floor. they can do this with thousands of appointees that have to be confirmed. so the real problem with these temporary appointees is that while they can hire and fire their direct reports, hiring new people is hard because finding people to take what amounts to a temp job with no gurantee that the new appointee will retain them isnnext to impossible. so a lot ofbholdovers from the previous administration stay on to sabotage them whenever they can.  the president cant just bulk fire people thanks to carter's civil service reform that prevents this very thing. the proper way is to appoint people who will in turn, fire there direct reports, and so on, until the grunts that do all the legwork are replaced. this is primarily why trump's first administration was full of leaker sand sabotuers.
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