"The slow pace and many obstacles to moving nominees is unacceptable", he said. "It's dangerous. We're less safe when our national security agencies are so short-staffed. We have to fix this problem", the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, said earlier this week.
"We have an extremely powerful NSC because there are so few confirmed ambassadors and experienced diplomats who can offer an alternate view", the source told CNN. "It's not enough to just have done a few years at a think tank".
"It's not the decision-making style we expected", one diplomat told CNN.
'Ahead of Science'
“Everybody uses this statement ‘follow the science’ very glibly, and I think that the science here did not warrant picking out a group of people and saying that you may be at more risk for acquiring an infection”, said Dr Sarah S. Long, a member of the CDC's advisory committee, as cited by the NYT.