Why is there such a long wait for reserve component officer and warrant federal recognition/promotion?

U10-18 just moved on from JAG today. Now it is Awaiting Dir Ch of Staff Pers approval; U10-18; 139 Days in DoD Approval cycle

Quick article by NGAUS about improving FEDREC wait times. The author writes, "Some National Guard officers are waiting 40 percent less for federal recognition of their state promotions since NGAUS cast a light on lengthy delays in the process."

I'm glad that the article ends with the NGAUS president BG (Ret.) Roy Robinson quoted saying, "But we can’t be satisfied yet. This process used to take just a couple months. With all the background information available now electronically, we should be able to get back to that."

https://www.ngaus.org/about-ngaus/newsroom/fedrec-wait-times-see-dramatic-drop

U06-18 Published today, so I hope the others nearby were part of that approval. Date of Rank 19 September.

P09-18 published last night for those that are tracking. Congrats to all!

Has anything moved in the last three weeks?

P04-18, P05-18, and U02-18 have published today. Congrats!

Based on the fact P04 and P05 did not publish this morning, I would guess that means it's probably another week at least. Seems in the past scrolls tend to publish on Tuesday morning although not always, we very well may be looking at another week with no scrolls published. Hope I'm wrong but that's my guess...

Looks like the portal is down this morning. Could be agood sign....last time the portal when down like this, a bunch of scrolls were published.

Well, looks like the new legislation may get vetoed at the White House if it pass the House and Senate...

https://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/news/white-house-opposes-‘fedrec’-legislation?https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__send.ngaus.org_link.cfm-3Fr-3DTRsMFkgwIFIgS9hypF0hNg-7E-7E-26pe-3D3aFVU-2D-2DiUIZcfVv9CFMaOOhyO1Sv6qj99jpVxBzz1l88epTHfztBJldMrwgIddcl48koMsUapJpz70hT29oEqQ-7E-7E-26t-3Dj90fbJjz5qhkIErza3gK7A-7E-7E&d=DwMFAw&c=UXmaowRpu5bLSLEQRunJ2z-YIUZuUoa9Rw_x449Hd_Y&r=tYY4EPPrLJV9qKnSxqvh73VOfk4bqYwjJAwf_IjSZ8s&m=ZR3YkZC-n7HYHJ3QJZqjIKRsA28VXaLwr9sYB18aPuc&s=Os_vXlVS9Tnx_l7h_84nV41_C_lA3-1M9SiG7q9Z9sg&e=

Copied below since the link isn't working for some reason:

White House Opposes ‘FedRec’ Legislation
NGAUS Washington Report
June 5, 2018

Legislation to hasten federal recognition of National Guard officer promotions does not have the blessing of the White House. The administration of President Trump cites “inequitable treatment” of Guard and active-component and Reserve officers as one reason it opposes the National Guard Promotion Accountability Act.
Guard officers commonly wait in excess of six months and sometimes much longer for the Pentagon to approve a promotion already endorsed by the state. The additional pay does not kick in until the federal recognition, but the officer may spend those months performing the job of the higher rank while receiving the lower rank’s pay.
Help shape the future of the National Guard
The act, which has the support of NGAUS, requires service secretaries to review the process in an attempt to complete it more quickly. It would also provide some officers with back pay to the time of the state promotion.
But active-component and Reserve officers wait, too, for recognition of their promotions. Sometimes six months pass from the promotion board’s recommendation to the final approval. The administration thinks it would be unfair to back-date the Guard promotions, as the legislation would do, but not the others.
The bill is included in the House version of the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 5515, and some version of the legislation is expected to be in the Senate NDAA when it is released this week or next.
Following the release of the House NDAA, the White House Statement of Administration Policy had this to say regarding the section on Guard officer promotions: “By mandating an effective date of promotion after Federal Recognition based upon the actions of a Governor of a State, the provision infringes on the authority of the President and Secretaries of military departments to appoint officers in the National Guard of the United States, which is part of the military’s Reserve Component. This provision would result in inequitable treatment among National Guard officers and similarly situated Regular Army, Regular Air Force, United States Army Reserve, and United States Air Force Reserve officers who are also subject to review before their appointment is tendered.”
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in April, Army Secretary Mark Esper signaled his support for a change, saying to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., “I think there are ways we can reduce the time.” He also agreed when Warren said the current system threatens morale.
Warren and Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., are authors of the Senate’s National Guard Promotion Accountability Act. The House bill is sponsored by Rep. Trent Kelly, R-Miss., and Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H.

I'm beyond frustrated with this entire process, I'm on P04-18 and it seems to be just sitting there at SECDEF. My understanding in the past has always been that once it gets there it should only take a couple weeks and you'll have orders in hand. It seems now that this scroll is just sitting there being held for some reason.

Anyone have any insight into this process and why it's taking so long at a step that in the past has always been one of the quickest steps? This scroll is working on having been at SECDEF for 40 days. I also realize that others have had it a lot worse especially the -17 year scrolls. However, it is still very discouraging to keep checking the tracking and see no progress when it should be done already!