Nearly 47,000 people have applied to work for the incoming Trump administration, Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer announced on Thursday.
Last week, President-elect Trump’s transition team set up a federal website, GreatAgain.gov, where people interested in jobs at the White House or in the administration could submit their resumes or share their ideas for government programs.
Amazing! As of this am almost 47k resumes submitted to https://t.co/1pN1nRDz7G by ppl who want to help @realDonaldTrump @mike_pence #MAGA
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) November 17, 2016
Trump’s transition team must fill more than 4,000 positions before Jan. 20, a daunting task for any incoming president but especially so for one with a lack of the usual insider connections.
The president-elect has spent the past week conducting meetings with potential Cabinet members and high-level advisors at Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he has huddled privately with aides and family members each day since returning from Washington last week. He has since emerged only once, slipping away from his skyscraper to have dinner with his family on Tuesday evening.
Transition officials have begun to convene daily conference calls with reporters to keep them abreast of their progress following media-driven criticism of their transparency efforts.
The officials are expected on Friday to unveil the members of their first four “landing teams,” or groups tasked with preparing federal agencies for the incoming Trump administration.
Those four teams will respectively head to the State Department, Justice Department, Pentagon and National Security Agency to open lines of communication between transition staff and the agencies’ existing leadership.
