The phrase "administration does not have" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the limitations or lack of resources, authority, or capabilities of an administration.
Example: "The administration does not have the necessary funds to support the new initiative."
Alternatives: "the administration lacks" or "the administration is without".
"Look," he said, "the administration does not have a perception.
"They are calculating that the administration does not have the courage to do battle with them, and they may be right," said Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group, a private organization that monitors the nuclear laboratories.
Once again, the administration asks the public to have trust, but the administration does not have a record worthy of trust, nor should the public have to trust the president on such issues.
In fact, some American intelligence officials say, the Bush administration does not have enough evidence of Iraqi complicity in anti-American terrorism to justify making Iraq the next target in the war on terrorism.
Whether or not the merger goes through, the administration does not have much time if it intends to find a successor: 2006 is around the corner in the classical-music business, in which major artists are booked years in advance.
Democratic leaders are using the diminishing surplus figures to bolster their argument that the administration does not have the money to pursue its plan to create private investment accounts in Social Security, to finance its national missile defense or to make good on its pledge to increase spending on education.
The administration doesn't have its act together.
If the administration doesn't have the votes to ban assault weapons, let the bill fail.
It's too bad the Bush administration doesn't have one of those.
"The administration doesn't have a manufacturing plan or an industrial plan," Mr. Levi said.
"If you just give a kid a pill, the prison administration doesn't have to do anything differently," he said.
