This is why Republican administrations are always a bad idea: They put non-experts in roles that require experts!
Democrats do the same thing. Sheila Jackson Lee… In 1997, while serving on the House Science Committee, she reportedly asked NASA officials if the Mars Pathfinder rover had taken pictures of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong.
A congressperson serving on a congressional committee for a technical topic is very different from a rando appointed to the head of a specialized department of the executive branch.
Democrats do the same thing. Sheila Jackson Lee… In 1997, while serving on the House Science Committee, she reportedly asked NASA officials if the Mars Pathfinder rover had taken pictures of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong.
A congressperson serving on a congressional committee for a technical topic is very different from a rando appointed to the head of a specialized department of the executive branch.