Designation of Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget

The President’s designation of an employee to act as Director of OMB under the Vacancies Reform Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 3345–3349d, is itself the appointment of an inferior officer and satisfies the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2, even if the employee had not earlier been an “Officer of the United States.”