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According to The Guardian, a report by the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service found that 27 Senate-confirmed officials had left positions within cabinet departments in Donald Trump’s second administration to date.

The report, titled Quiet Chaos, said the total was nearly 150% higher than the 11 departures recorded during the first 18 months of Trump’s first administration. It also said the figure was nearly two and a half times the first-term total and more than six times the 4.3 average across the George W Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden administrations.

Chris Piper of the Partnership for Public Service wrote that vacancies filled by acting officials can concentrate authority in the presidency because acting appointees do not require Senate vetting, confirmation hearings or votes. Trump has previously said acting appointments offer “much greater flexibility.”

The Guardian article linked the staffing departures to broader changes in executive power. It cited the US supreme court’s July 2024 ruling on former presidents’ immunity from criminal prosecution and its more recent decision in Trump v Slaughter, which overturned the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor ruling.

On the same day, the court ruled in Trump v Cook that the Federal Reserve was an exception to the president’s removal power. In her dissent in Trump v Slaughter, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision gave the president far greater power, while Trump described it on Truth Social as “the Greatest Increase in Presidential Power in the last 100 years.”