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Failed Biden nominee quietly appointed to top role overseeing war on household appliances
2023-09-20
[Fox News]He's toast.
The DOE announced last week that Jeff Marootian was appointed to be the principal deputy assistant secretary of the agency's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The appointment came days after the White House withdrew his name from consideration to lead EERE as the office's assistant secretary.

While Marootian's nomination failed after Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., opposed him over the Biden administration's crackdown on natural gas-powered stovetops, his appointment last week makes him the effective chief of the DOE's EERE office.
Failing up
But probably not paid as well as the original job on offer.
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  /\ Yes Supe, "capitulation" to the CCP on some major issue or other, appears to take place on a weekly basis. This is one of the reasons I discount the endless MSM "war with China" rhetoric.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-09-20 14:34  

#2  The Energy Department, an idea concocted to make us feel like we had a good plan to combat the oil embargo, is now coming for our electric can openers and gas powered hedge trimmers while Joe empties our strategic oil reserve into Chinese tankers. I guess the new strategy is capitulation and all it cost the CCP was a bribe for the Big Guy.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-09-20 12:43  

#1  Whenever you have a title like "principal deputy assistant secretary of the agency's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy", you know there are way too many layers of bureaucracy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-09-20 11:46  

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