PRESIDENT ELECT TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM WHO's WHO
Submitted by christian on Thu, 11/10/2016 - 18:54
President-elect Trump will have about 4,000 government positions to fill, including some of the most important posts in the US government. His team has been at work coming up with possible candidates for the top jobs, but there is a smaller universe of Republicans who were close to his campaign. Much of the Washington establishment kept him at arms length. Others, including some former GOP cabinet secretaries, rejected him entirely.
Transition Team
- Mike Pence, Chairman of the Transition Team
- Dr. Ben Carson,New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, along with Rudolph W. Giuliani Former Mayor of New York , Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn (Retired), and U.S. Senator of Alabama Jeff Sessions, Vice Chairmen of the Transition Team
- Rick Dearborn,: Chief of Staff to Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Executive Director
- David Bossie: Formerly Deputy Campaign Manager is Rick Dearborn's Deputy
- Don McGahn: A Partner ar Law Firm Jones Day is General Counsel
Presidential Team Executive Committee
- Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania Representative
- Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Representative
- Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General
- Chris Collins, New York Representative
- Jared Kushner, Son-in-Law of President Elect and Publisher of New York Observer
- Tom Marino, Pennsylvania Representative
- Rebekah Mercer, Ran a pro-Trump political action committee, Father is one of the country's biggest Republican Donors
- Steven Mnuchin, Former Campaign Finance Chairman, Former Goldman Sachs Partner, and Dune Capital Management CEO
- Devin Nunes, California Representative, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
- Anthony Scaramucci, Founder and co-Managing partner of investment firm Skybridge Capital
- Peter Thiel, Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of PayPal and sits on the Board of Facebook Inc.
- Donald Trump Jr. (Son of President Elect)
- Eric Trump (Son of President Elect)
- Ivanka Trump (Daughter of President Elect)
- Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee Chairman
- Stephen K. Bannon, Trump Campaign CEO
Advisors
These advisors will assemble the ranks of officials who will attempt to make Trump’s campaign vision, however blurry, a policy reality.
- Kellyanne Conway: Formerly Campaign Manager, Senior Adviser
- Katie Walsh, RNC Chief of Staff, Senior Adviser
- James Nicholas 'Nick' Ayers, A partner in Target Enterprises, a strategic media and communications firm based in Los Angeles, Senior Adviser
- Josh Pitcock, ran Indiana's Office in Washington, Senior Adviser
- Marc Short, Former Chairman of Freedom Partners, Senior Adviser
- Stephen Miller, Formerly a Jeff Sessions aide who worked for the campaign, is National Policy director
- Jason Miller, Formerly Campaign Spokesman is Communications Director
- Hope Hicks, National Press Secretary
Policy areas
- Economics: Department of the Treasury: David Malpass, who also worked for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush before spending 15 years with Bear Stearns.
- Telecommunications: Jeffrey Eisenach, a veteran foe of federal technology regulation, to lead his telecom transition team. A former economist at the Federal Trade Commissions and advisor in Ronald Reagan’s White House.
- Labor relations: J. Steven Hart, a high-profile Washington lobbyist who previously worked in the Reagan administration. An Oklahoma native with ties to former Rep. Tom DeLay, Stevens has lobbied for Coca-Cola and Pfizer
- Food policy: Trump has recruited veteran Capitol Hill lobbyist Michael K. Torrey to shepherd the transition of the US Department of Agriculture and its portfolio, including farm subsidies, the food stamp program, the Farm Bill, school meals, nutrition labeling rules, and more.
- The environment: The person in charge of staffing up the Environmental Protection Agency is Myron Ebell, currently the director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a libertarian DC think tank that is a nonprofit but largely funded by industry.
- Energy: To get people in place to execute this plan, Trump has turned to Mike McKenna , a lobbyist at his own shop, MWR Strategies, Trump also tapped David Bernhardt , a former Bush administration official who now represents large energy companies at the nation’s second-largest lobbying firm.
- Trade: He appointed the former CEO of Nucor Steel, Dan DiMicco, to handle staffing for the office of the US Trade Representative.
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