Convert career leadership posts at HUD into political appointments
What the document says“HUD political leadership should immediately assign all delegated powers to politically appointed PDAS, DAS, and other office leadership positions”
The chapter asks that current career leadership positions be changed into political and non-career appointments, and that Senior Executive Service transfers be used to install what it calls motivated and aligned leadership. It says implementing its reforms simply requires courageous political leadership across the department's appointed positions.
What the document actually says“HUD political leadership should immediately assign all delegated powers to politically appointed PDAS, DAS, and other office leadership positions”
Give all these powers to political staff. Do it at once.
Career staff hold many senior jobs here. The book says political staff should hold them. Their powers would move over right away.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. EO 14317 creates Schedule G in the excepted service for noncareer positions of a policy-making or policy-advocating character, which is a route to appointing aligned leadership. Its implementation section names only the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, it converts no HUD position, and it neither reassigns delegated powers to political appointees nor directs the Senior Executive Service transfers the passage asks HUD leadership to make. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.