Federal employee background checks pile up, while government agencies blame each other

Headlines scream about security breaches, but the federal government can’t get its act together and hire the people necessary to fix them. This epitomizes the messes that President Trump was elected to fix.

Everything involving our national security is nearly crippled because personnel cannot get approved to work with confidential and secret information. The screening process is currently backlogged by 700,000 applications—basically a year of drudgery even if no new work came in.