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Tensions have been rising between Cabinet officials and White House advisers embedded at their agencies.
By MICHAEL GRUNWALD , ANDREW RESTUCCIA and JOSH DAWSEY 05/01/17 05:09 AM EDT
The White House is quietly starting to pull the plug on its shadow Cabinet of Trump loyalists who had been dispatched to federal agencies to serve as the presidents eyes and ears.
These White House-installed chaperones have often clashed with the Cabinet secretaries they were assigned to monitor, according to sources across the agencies, with the secretaries expressing frustration that the so-called senior White House advisers are mostly young Trump campaign aides with little experience in government.
The tensions have escalated for weeks, prompting a recent meeting among Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and other administration officials, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. Now, some of the advisers are being reassigned or simply eased out, the sources said, even though many of them had expected to be central players at their agencies for the long haul. The tumult underscores the growing pains that are still being felt throughout Trumps government, more than 100 days into his term.
These guys are being set up for failure, said one administration source. Theyre not D.C. guys. Theyre campaign people. They have no idea how government works.
The White House began deploying the advisers throughout the bureaucracy in January, assigning them to report back on what was happening in their departments. But according to several sources, their meddling quickly began to irritate high-powered officials accustomed to running their own shops -- including Defense Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, both former generals; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a successful financier; and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who had been a Cabinet secretary before.
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NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)Who could have guessed that.
elleng
(130,126 posts)said one administration source. Theyre not D.C. guys. Theyre campaign people. They have no idea how government works.
underpants
(182,271 posts)On Inauguration Day he appeared at a presse saying that all the roughly 600 positions would be temporarily filled by "Beach head teams". It was a lie. The idea actually came from Romney who had a team working on transition should me have won.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)mealy mouthed press, should just say what they really are.