In an early morning post on his verified Twitter account, the president said, "When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet."
He said, "They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn't work."
His choice to succeed Loretta Lynch as attorney general, Alabama's Sen. Jeff Sessions, was due for a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee later Tuesday morning.
Several other Cabinet picks are due for votes by the respective committees in the next few days.
In another news:
A shakeup at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has resulted in the departure of acting director Daniel Ragsdale.
The administration didn't offer any explanation for the move announced late Monday. The move came on the same day that President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for publicly declining to defend Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees.
ICE executive associate director Thomas Homan has been elevated to the role of acting chief. The agency's Twitter account says Ragsdale is returning to his previous position as deputy director of ICE.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said in announcing the change that Homan had led efforts "to identify, arrest, detain, and remove illegal aliens." The statement didn't make any mention of Ragsdale.
An ICE spokeswoman didn't offer any further explanation for the move when reached early Tuesday.
AP
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