By Prensa Latina,
Washington : Many United Status Federal Agencies are without supervisors, with some covering posts on a temporary basis now preparing to jump ship in which the George W.. Bush government has only eight months left.
Although this situation is typical of this country at the end of an administration, under the Bush mandate it has extended not by months but by years reported the digital The Washington Post daily.
Only in Congress there are 200 nominations pending in the fights between Democrats and the White House, the digital newspaper indicated.
Analysts explain that the situation threatens the work of agencies and institutions that offer key services such as health, security of the nation, or the fight against crime.
“We have had almost two years of pure chaos,” commented Paul C. Light, expert on federal bureaucracy of New York University ó s Wagner School of Public Services.
Officials don ó t know where to turn or from whom to receive any order, and neither Congress nor the president are doing anything about it, Light explained.
According to the Post, it is very difficult to fill vacancies with two wars and the economic crisis thrashing the country.
Also, political errors of the Executive have provoked an exodus of officials.
David á E. Lewis, Princeton University professor, commented that the slow response to Katrina in 2005 caused a mass exodus of workers of the Federal Agency for the Management of Emergencies.