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The administration’shaphazard appointment process is unlike any in recent memory and has left the federal government unsteadied at thehighest levels. Vacancies were one of the reasons Weyeneth was able to moveup canada goose outlet store quebec so frequently, the White House has acknowledged. For Weyeneth’s final promotion, though, Doocey reassigned an experienced “career incumbent” civil servant to create room for him to become deputy chief of staff at ONDCP,according to a memo independently obtained by The Post.

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His first promotion came a few weeks later. He was hired to be a coordinator for some of the interns, earning the equivalent of about $48,000 annually, Weyeneth said. Among the first people he told was his mother, Kim Weyeneth.

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