October 29, 2019
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Too much disruption?The outsider approach hasn&China Aluminum extrusions profile39;t
always worked.â€Rick Perry, Trump's choice for energy secretary, served three
terms as Governor of Texas and had to "balance a very conservative and
increasingly ideological grassroots (support base) with a very influential
business community," said James Henson, Director of the Texas Politics Project
at the University of Texas at Austin.
There are no Hispanics. Instead, he has
built a team of bosses.Kevin Kelly, a managing partner at Recon Capital
Partners, an investment firm in Stamford, Connecticut, said that kind of
real-world savvy could make government more effective. He credited Price's
career as a surgeon, which is also the former profession of Ben Carson, Trump's
choice for Secretary of housing and urban development.In 2008, Mnuchin purchased
IndyMac, a lender that failed during the financial crisis and helped transform
it into OneWest, now a thriving retail bank in southern California."Washington
is a very healthy immunological system," he said.Of the 21 cabinet members and
White House advisers chosen to date by Trump, 16 are white men.
He named his
rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton, as his
Secretary of State."Management of large, public agencies is really difficult and
requires bringing in experienced and knowledgeable people and working in ways
that doesn't alienate people," said Thomas Mann, an expert on governance at the
Brookings Institution.Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton
University, said Trump is building a cabinet in his own image: blunt-talkers
with real-world experience.â€Trump's transition team has said the cabinet is
intended to be a mix of experienced Washington hands and newcomers. "You'll see
a full-blown organ rejection if you put too many status-quo disruptors in
Washington.Many of them are people used to getting their way but will now have a
boss to answer to - Trump - while navigating the sometimes frustrating and
sprawling bureaucracy of the US government.Trump, who says Washington is
"broken" and controlled by special interests, has largely eschewed technocrats
with long government experience.
Those with high-level corporate experience are
used to having to please shareholders, board members, employees, and the
community, Kelly said. There is one African-American, one Asian-American and one
Indian-American. There are four women, none of whom hold what might be
considered a top-tier agency post. Others have been hostile toward the agencies
they will lead if the US Senate confirms them early in 2017.Carson, said Henry
Brem, a neurosurgeon who worked with Carson at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore, has a "cool head" and is unafraid to give strong opinions. He
ultimately was fired.
Anthony Scaramucci, an adviser to the Trump transition, has
acknowledged that too much inexperience could be harmful to Trump's young
administration. Robert Gates, who served the previous administration, remained
at the Pentagon, and Obama made longtime Justice Department official Eric
Holder, Attorney General.Republican Representative Tom Price, Trump's choice to
lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is "decisive by nature," said
fellow Republican lawmaker Tom Cole. But former Presidents who brought in
outside blood have at times seen political neophytes make costly errors, experts
said.". President-elect Donald Trump.Trump's roster of agency heads and advisers
conspicuously lacks intellectuals, lawyers, and academics of the sort sought by
some past presidents. (Photo: File) Washington: With more than 20 nominees now
selected, Donald Trump’s cabinet appears much like the President-elect himself:
mostly older, white males, many of them wealthy, who see themselves as
risk-takers and deal-makers and prize action over deliberation."Surrounding
yourself with military guys and money guys sends a certain message," Zelizer
said.
In their place are titans of business and finance from the likes of Exxon
Mobil # and Goldman Sachs and no fewer than three retired generals in key
positions.Like the real-estate magnate who chose them, several have no
government experience.A former senior US official who knows Rex Tillerson, the
former Exxon Mobil CEO who is Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, and Marine
General James Mattis, Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, predicted a massive
clash of egos in the cabinet."Whether he can do that do that in a bureaucratic
setting, in an environment as competitive as a cabinet with a lot of obviously
large egos, I think is another question," Henson said. "He’s a gentleman, he
speaks his mind, he has great ideas – and nobody in the world intimidates
him.Tillerson and Mattis are "accustomed to dominating whatever space they find
themselves in, and that probably will now include the Situation Room and even
the Oval Office. Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Paul O’Neill, the former Chief
Executive of aluminum producer Alcoa Inc, rattled markets with a series of
careless remarks that seemed to herald economic policy shifts that differed with
the White House's stance. "A certain kind of cutthroat aggressive dealmaker is
how [Trump] imagines himself to be.
New ChallengesThe newcomers to Washington
will rise to the administrative challenge, said those who know them."Obama, who
leaves office in January, relied on experienced hands to form his cabinet in
2008. The incoming Trump administration is poised to undo as much of President
Barack Obama's accomplishments as possible, while also attempting to advance a
conservative policy agenda in areas such as taxes and healthcare. In 2001,
President George W.Trump's roster of agency heads conspicuously lack
intellectuals, lawyers, and academics of the sort sought by some past
presidents.Some of Trump's picks do have similar experience, and he has packed
his on-the-ground transition teams at various agencies with government veterans
and ex-lobbyists, a review found earlier in December.
It takes a very precise
and dedicated person to deliver across those constituencies.Several of Trump's
picks have never held any sort of government post and have little, if any,
background in policy-making, including Tillerson, Treasury nominee Steven
Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs alumnus, Commerce pick Wilbur Ross, a billionaire
investor, and Gary Cohn, the Goldman Sachs executive who would chair Trump’s
economic council
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