Harris has had to build a campaign quickly, leaving less time for considering future appointments.
If she wins in November, Vice President Kamala Harris may face a hostile, Republican-controlled Senate in no mood to confirm the senior Cabinet officials she’ll need to run her administration.
Anticipating that scenario, Harris’ team is exploring whether to keep in place some of the Biden administration officials who’ve already been confirmed by the Senate and wouldn’t need to face the gauntlet again, four people familiar with her transition planning said.
Her aides are also looking at the option of initially retaining some current officials so that she'd have more time to make staffing decisions. With only a few months to build a campaign after abruptly replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, Harris has had little time to focus on the makeup of a new administration, the people familiar with the planning said.
Sorry, the best I can do is giving Garland a lifetime appointment as AG (* while Democrats control the White House). Think of how much of an epic clapback that would be since they blocked him from a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. They'll be so upset when we continue to empower the guy specifically chosen for being extremely inoffensive to Republicans!
I love how if Republicans win they get to shove through every fever dream nightmare thing they want, but if Democrats win they can still have at least 2 years of absofuckinglutely nothing...
It's not so much that it's treated as "zero urgency" from Democrats, but rather Democrats don't embrace a king "unitary executive" theory that Republicans do. So when Trump wins the Republicans accept that he can push through whatever he (read: the heritage foundation) wants, it's a big part of project 2025.
If Democrats win they play by the system that exists, which is: we want something, Republicans say "go fucking die you communist piece of shit" and nothing happens because we don't have a majority. If we end up with a 50/50 split then Joe Manchild and Self-centered Scinema say "go fucking die you communist piece of shit" and nothing happens because we don't have a supermajority and they refuse to help kill the filibuster because they're paid to be Republicans in the Democratic party. This is why the only thing we've accomplished through Congress in the last like 20 fucking years is a goddamn Republican healthcare system (Obamacare is Romneycare) because we had enough of a majority for something like 3 months...
Fun fact: since all appointees serve at the the pleasure of the President, all Secretaries and under Secretaries write a letter of resignation dated on the day the new President is sworn in. It's up to the new President if they're accepted or not.
Cabinet members are looking before the election though. They are out of a job if trump wins. They are out of a job if Harris wins + the Senate. They may not be out of a job if Harris wins and the Senate goes Republican. That's not good odds to stick around for.