The Daily 202: Trump still hasn’t nominated a director for the Violence Against Women office at the Justice Department
Trump: ‘I am totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind’ BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: President Trump has not nominated anyone to be the director of the Office on Violence Against Women in the Justice Department. The person in this position oversees a budget of more than $450 million and is supposed to be the administration’s leading voice on domestic and sexual violence, both nationally and internationally. By controlling the flow of grants, the director can influence programs to better protect and serve victims. Women’s advocates lobbied for years to elevate this job and require that the Senate confirm the president’s pick. It is one of more than 200 high-profile appointments that Trump has left vacant over the past 13 months, far more than his predecessors. But this opening has become especially glaring against the backdrop of the White House’s botched response to revelations that...