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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon May 1, 2017, 03:11 PM May 2017

Trump starts dismantling his shadow Cabinet

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 president’s 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 Trump’s government, more than 100 days into his term.

“These guys are being set up for failure,” said one administration source. “They’re not D.C. guys. They’re 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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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/01/trump-starts-dismantling-his-shadow-cabinet-237819

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Trump starts dismantling his shadow Cabinet (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
You mean Democracy doesn't mesh with political commissars? NutmegYankee May 2017 #1
These guys are being set up for failure, elleng May 2017 #2
+ Pence was flat out lying about the "Beach head teams" underpants May 2017 #3
Apparatchiks and political officers not chaperones Thomas Hurt May 2017 #4
Didn't appreciate the Thought Police telling them how to do their jobs, huh? tanyev May 2017 #5

elleng

(130,126 posts)
2. These guys are being set up for failure,
Mon May 1, 2017, 03:20 PM
May 2017

said one administration source. “They’re not D.C. guys. They’re campaign people. They have no idea how government works.”

underpants

(182,271 posts)
3. + Pence was flat out lying about the "Beach head teams"
Mon May 1, 2017, 03:22 PM
May 2017

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)
4. Apparatchiks and political officers not chaperones
Mon May 1, 2017, 03:23 PM
May 2017

mealy mouthed press, should just say what they really are.

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