It appears there’s a better candidate for Trump’s “sleepy” moniker
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images To use the phrase “[department head] is falling asleep at [Cabinet-level department]” would normally describe a profound level of negligence, but that interpretation doesn’t apply to Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, who is reportedly falling asleep in department meetings to the extent that his schedulers have to severely limit his face time with senior staffers.
“There’s a small window where he’s able to focus and pay attention and not fall asleep,” a former outside adviser told Politico. “Because he tends to fall asleep in meetings, they try not to put him in a position where that could happen, so they’re very careful and conscious about how they schedule certain meetings.”
The Commerce Department pushed a different picture of Ross’s stamina on Politico, describing him as a “tireless worker who is the sole decision-maker at the department. He routinely works 12-hour days and travels often.” But Commerce officials reportedly work to keep Ross from testifying at congressional oversight hearings, fearing he couldn’t handle the pressure. “There’s a great deal of effort to shield him from testifying ever again,” a source close to the department told Politico.
The doubt that Commerce staff have in their 81-year-old leader’s ability to keep his head off the table is just one somnambulant example of the reported chaos in the department. According to Politico, Ross spends a great chunk of his time at the White House currying favor with the president, who considered firing him after the department failed to force a citizenship question onto the 2020 Census.
The report displays yet another department in crisis under President Trump’s appointees. Speaking about his ProPublica investigation into the directionless nature of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Ben Carson, reporter Alec MacGillis described HUD as “very aimless … It’s through inattention and dysfunction rather than outright activist dismantling.
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