“Donald Trump campaigned as an outsider who vowed to ‘drain the swamp’ in Washington, but the president-elect’s transition team is packed with veterans of the GOP establishment, as well as with lobbyists for the fossil fuel, chemical, pharmaceutical and tobacco industries,” Politico reports.
Where Is Trump?
New York Times: “The whereabouts of the president-elect, who has broken with convention and opted to travel without a press pool, at least for the moment, remains something of a mystery. On Thursday afternoon, Hope Hicks, Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman, gave word that he would be spending the night in Washington instead of returning to New York, as planned. But hours later, she sent a terse update: ‘Now heading to NYC.’ Requests for further details on his schedule were met with silence.”
Hensarling Being Considered for Treasury
“Aides to President-elect Donald Trump are considering Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) as a candidate for Treasury secretary, a pick that would bring an elected official with a free-market background and deep GOP ties into one of the cabinet’s most powerful posts,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Bannon Also Being Considered for Chief of Staff
“Steve Bannon, the conservative provocateur and Mr. Trump’s campaign chief, is now a leading candidate to become White House chief of staff, but he’d have to beat out another campaign veteran in the running, Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee,” the New York Times reports.
Trump Maps Out Seismic Shift to Washington
“Washington began its transition of power Wednesday as the ascendancy of President-elect Donald Trump promised a seismic shift in nearly every facet of the capital city, from military and executive agencies to federal courts and financial and political establishments,” the Washington Post reports.
“Claiming an electoral mandate after maintaining majorities in both chambers of Congress, Trump’s resurgent Republican Party planned an aggressive and sweeping program to systematically dismantle Obama’s policies and to usher in a new era of conservative governance… For the GOP, there were signs of unity after a season of acrimony brought by Trump’s divisive candidacy, which antagonized party leaders.”
Trump Refused to Let Press Cover Obama Meeting
President-elect Donald Trump “refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation’s leader,” the AP reports.
“Trump flew from New York to Washington on his private jet without that ‘pool’ of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect. Trump’s flouting of press access was one of his first public decisions since his election Tuesday.”
Trump Staff Line Up for White House Jobs
“The political cast-offs, never-have-beens and backbench legislators who surround Donald Trump were warned that their work for the nominee would forever stain their resumes. Now they’re in line for the most influential jobs in Washington,” Politico reports.
“Resumes are rolling in from operatives looking for administration work — offering one of the surest signs that whatever wound was opened during the ugly GOP primary has been healed by Tuesday night’s stunning victories that handed both the White House and Congress to the Republican Party.”
The Trump transition has a new website.
It Begins With a Meeting
New York Times: “Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump are set to get together at the White House, a significant step in the handoff and a meeting between men who have had little good to say about each other. Mr. Trump has famously and falsely questioned Mr. Obama’s birthplace and citizenship, and Mr. Obama has scalded him as unfit for office and worse, including during a roasting at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. But the two seem to have agreed to let bygones be bygones to secure the nation’s traditional peaceful transition of power.”
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