It's excellent cover for these "apolitical" positions where you are appointed by one party , but are supposedly from another. The president almost always know what they are appointing (trump excluded because he was an outsider (and stupid).
You can extra street cred that way. Kind of like Georgetown pretending to speak about Catholic Theology from a position of authority because they are known to be a catholic college when in fact they are about as far from catholicism as they can possibly get themselves.
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