The Biden administration quietly placed an official who failed Senate confirmation in a role that gives him effective leadership of the agency he was nominated to lead. The Department of Energy (DOE) quietly promoted a top adviser to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to a senior role after he failed to clear Senate confirmation.
While Marootian’s nomination failed after Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,
on natural gas-powered stovetops, his appointment last week makes him the effective chief of the DOE’s EERE office. Jeff Marootian, President Biden’s former pick for Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy, testifies during a Senate confirmation hearing in November.
“Jeff Marootian is an unelected, unaccountable, and unconfirmed bureaucrat who is carrying out President Biden’s orders to attack affordable household appliances,” Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee headtopics.com
told Fox News Digital in a statement. Barrasso opposed Marootian’s nomination last year, arguing he was more qualified for a Transportation Department role.
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