Thousands of Federal Buildings Are Now Missing 1 Traditional Item

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After nearly nine months in office, portraits of our president and vice president have yet to be hung in thousands of federal offices across the country.

A report from the The Washington Post Monday revealed official portraits of both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence haven’t been hung in several federal courthouses, military installations, ports of entry and a slew of other federal buildings.

Longstanding tradition asserts that the president and vice president’s portraits hang in the lobbies of federal buildings, serving as a sign of respect to our nation’s leaders.

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While Trump and Pence haven’t yet taken official photographs for their portraits, it still raises many questions as to whether there are photos of former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden still hanging in federal buildings.

“GPO is standing by to reproduce copies of the president and the vice president’s photos for official use in federal facilities and will do so as soon as the official photo files are provided to us,” said Gary Somerset, a spokesman for the Government Publishing Office.

“I do not have a timeline on when GPO will receive those files from the White House,” he said.

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The White House said the administration will send the portraits to the GPO to make mass copies once the photos are finalized.

“All agencies who have requested the President’s portrait have received a photo to display. We’re still in the process of creating the official portrait. Once it’s been produced, the White House photo office will distribute it to all of the agencies and other requests,” Lindsay E Water, a White House spokesperson, said.

Further proving how self-important he believed himself to be, Obama released his official portrait just one week into his presidency. Former President Bill Clinton waited nearly one year to have his sent out to government buildings.

Several other high-ranking cabinet members have declined to hang their portraits, choosing the more respectful path and waiting for the president and vice president to have their photos sent out first.

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Trump and Pence have been quite busy since they took over in January.

Aside from undoing a plethora of policy Obama signed into law, the president has remained focused on pushing big ticket items such as health care, tax reform, the border wall and immigration reform through DACA, not to mention dealing with an increasingly hostile North Korea.

On top of that incredibly difficult agenda, the Trump administration has also dealt with the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which wreaked havoc across Texas and Florida.

It should make the American people proud this administration is more focused on passing important issues and improving the nation rather than taking pictures of themselves.

H/T Daily Caller

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