Once Joe Biden became president-elect, political appointees throughout the Trump administration arrived at a difficult point: it was time to update their resumes and look for new opportunities. As regular readers may recall, that would pose a greater challenge than officials from traditional administrations usually face.

The Washington Post reported in early December that some executives from Fortune 500 companies were reluctant to hire applicants "closely linked to" Donald Trump. A month later, Politico reported that many officials from the Republican administration were "struggling to find new employment" -- a problem that intensified after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

That report ran three months ago today, and there's little to suggest conditions have improved for members of the former president's team: "Several former Trump officials told the Washington Post that the job climate was even more difficult than they believed it would be, and both former vice president Mike Pence and Trump have kept a coterie of staffers still on their payrolls, some because they have not been able to find other work."