By Ben Brody, Shannon Pettypiece and Bill Allison, Bloomberg News
One sign of how entrenched the revolving door has become in Washington: Experienced people are forsaking chances to fill key posts in President Donald Trump’s administration partly because of his executive order forbidding federal employees from lobbying for five years after leaving government service.
Trump has the authority to fill more than 4,000 jobs in thefederal bureaucracy with his appointees. But most of the positions are either empty or filled with holdovers from former President Barack Obama’s administration, hampering Trump’s ability to enact his priorities.
A dozen people inside and outside of ...
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