Trump's Cabinet exodus is an emergency: Unconfirmed acting secretaries are running the government

One of Donald Trump’s major campaign promises was to “drain the swamp,” an allusion to the cesspool of corrupt and unethical characters crowding the hallways of power in Washington. On Friday, Department of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta announced that he would join the long list of recent resignations out of the Trump administration, bowing out in disgrace over his handling of a major sex trafficking case involving billionaire political donor Jeffery Epstein. "He's Hispanic, which I so admire, because maybe it was a little tougher for him..." Acosta was nominated to Trump’s Cabinet, as the first and only Hispanic member, after Trump’s first pick, former Carl Jr.’s head Andy Puzder, was forced to withdraw following allegations of domestic abuse. Acosta’s ignoble departure from the Trump administration comes less than a month after Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive who served as acting defense secretary for six months, withdrew his delayed nomination to the top post at the Pentagon after allegations of domestic abuse within his own family. He was an assistant secretary at the Labor Department throughout President George W. Bush's entire two-term administration and then was Obama’s pick to serve as the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s sole GOP representative.