Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas

Washington Post ^ | March 27, 2017 | Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker

[Pinkbell]

President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions. The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump.

Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements.

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Kushner is positioning the new office as “an offensive team” — an aggressive, nonideological ideas factory capable of attracting top talent from both inside and outside of government, and serving as a conduit with the business, philanthropic and academic communities.

“We should have excellence in government,” Kushner said Sunday in an interview in his West Wing office. “The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.”

The innovation office has a particular focus on technology and data, and it is working with such titans as Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk. The group has already hosted sessions with more than 100 such leaders and government officials.

[bert]

It is important to remember the context of the comparisons of business and government.

President Trump made an exceptionally strong effort to meet with the CEO’s of American businesses, lots of them. The reason was not to tell them what he was going to do but to listen to what they thought needed fixing.

Jared Kushner has been tasked with part of the job. He will have a volunteer force to provide assistance in developing business methods to be applied to government. People here resent his youth and wealth and then their knee jerks and the bitter criticism pours out.

[Poison Pill]

I prefer streamlined and run like a business.

Government isn't a business

Government is a Government.

If we only had an owners manual for it...

[nathanbedford]

All these billionaires are much better at solving problems

Some billionaires or successful people in the private sector have skills that do not translate into useful skills in the public sector. The names of Robert McNamara and Herbert Hoover come immediately to mind. On the other hand, some captains of industry like Henry J Kaiser were very effective in mobilizing America's industry for war. But of course in times of war money is not the object and opposition is steamrolled in the name of survival. Not so in the sausage making business of cooking up legislation in peacetime.

Reform of government is terribly difficult, ask Al Gore, because the people who operate government are not interested in generating a profit but are interested in cultivating votes or growing turf. The public too often is not interested in government efficiency but in a government largess. In short, there is almost no constituency for leaner, more effective, more economical government.

We see liberal Democrats being put in the role of breaking Rice bowls, let us give them the benefit of the doubt and credit them with good intentions but they are about to learn how tenacious the owners of those rice bowls will be in their defense.

[conservative98]

If You Always Think the Way You’ve Always Thought, You Will Always Get What You’ve Always Got.

[Poison Pill]

People here resent his youth and wealth and then their knee jerks and the bitter criticism pours out.

If Jared Kushner cut the size of the Government by 50%, I'd carve his face in Mt. Rushmore myself.

[Poison Pill]

If You Always Think the Way You’ve Always Thought, You Will Always Get What You’ve Always Got.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

[TomGuy]

Sounds like just another name for the Jarrett-CZARS of the previous administration.

Team Trump still needs to do a house-cleaning of the Executive branch — soon. The enemy is still within.

[Uncle Miltie]

“Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk.”

Liberals all.

[Parley Baer]

“While your skepticism has been well-earned by the professional political class which preceded him, Trump has spent his first two months doing nothing but keeping campaign promises. Until and unless he changes that, he has my confidence.”

This ^^^^^ I can’t believe what in the hell is going on with some members here on Free Republic. I have seen nothing yet in Trump that causes me not to have full confidence in the man.

[nikos1121]

Where’s Newt? I thought Newt would be brought in for something like this?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Where’s Newt? I thought Newt would be brought in for something like this?

Great question. I thought Trump said Newt would have a role in his administration. Methinks Newt's perfect role would be mentoring Trump and his staff on working a bill through Congress.

[GailA]

Then some one needs to EDUCATE Kushner on Opioids stats. Most are fake. Most OD’s are Heroin laced with Fentanyl, real or home made.

What is being hidden is the 1.33 Million Chronic Pain Patients committing Suicide because the DEA and the FAKE stats the media is putting out are being cut off of pain meds by 75%. Imagine you are 70+ yrs old, have a incurable disease that causes massive pain. You are now forced into FAKE Pain Management and have to P in a cup every 30 days with a $300 co-pay, because your Specialist is afraid to script for your well medically documented medical condition and pain.

Survey Shows Doctors Shunning Chronic Pain
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/14/survey-shows-doctors-shunning-chronic-pain-patients

Deadly New Drug: U-47700 aka U4, Pink or Pinky
https://www.inspiremalibu.com/blog/drug-addiction/deadly-new-drug-u-47700-aka-u4-pink-or-pinky/

Companies and The Government
http://blog.seakexperts.com/urine-drug-tests-pain-management-defrauding-patients-insurance-companies-government/

Docs warn that Medicare crackdown will hurt pain patients
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/docs-warn-that-medicare-crackdown-will-hurt-pain-patients-235917

Survey Finds CDC Opioid Guidelines Harming Patients
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/13/survey-finds-cdc-opioid-guidelines-harming-patients

Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/02/doctors-curtail-opioids-but-many-see-harm-pain-patients/z4Ci68TePafcD9AcORs04J/story.html

Dr. Tennant. He basically summarized almost everything we have been saying regarding the CDC guidelines. It is very refreshing to read a more balanced view...
https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/pharmacological/opioids/living-cdc-opioid-guidelines

Opioid Overdose Statistics: As Clear as Mud
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/12/17/opioid-overdose-statistics-as-clear-as-mud?rq=pain%20statistics

Docs warn that Medicare crackdown will hurt pain patients
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/docs-warn-that-medicare-crackdown-will-hurt-pain-patients-235917

Survey Finds CDC Opioid Guidelines Harming Patients
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/13/survey-finds-cdc-opioid-guidelines-harming-patients

CDC: Painkillers Not Driving Spike in Fatal Opioid Overdoses
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/873481

Illegally Manufactured Fentanyl Linked to Rise in Overdoses
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/867986

Opiates Delivered By Mail From China, Killing Addicts In The U.S.
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/11/519649096/can-china-ban-on-deadly-opioid-save-lives-in-the-u-s

The Long History of Discrimination in Pain Medicine
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/chronic-pain-stigma/517689/

Are CDC Opioid Guidelines Causing More Suicides?
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/5/27/are-cdcs-opioid-guidelines-causing-more-suicides

Sharp Rise Reported in Older Americans’ Use of Multiple Psychiatric Drugs (why would a patient be prescribe a drug they didn’t need? To line a docs pocket and Big Pharma’s)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/health/psychiatric-drugs-prescriptions.html?_r=0

[GailA]

Military Tricare Prime/Life are on a automated medicine reorder system 5 days for a refill. I live in TN all our scripts are filled at the Millington Naval (BUPERS) Base, refills are done by an automated system out of Pensacola. If you need Millington base police, please call Pensacola....

[katiedidit1]

You’ve got that right. Priebus as a Chief Adviser is not exactly draining the swamp. Kushner troubles me but time will tell....

[MyDogAteMyBallot]

“The innovation office has a particular focus on technology and data, and it is working with such titans as Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk.

Garbage in = garbage out.”

Bingo.
“Titans” who are all leftists

[9YearLurker]

What are you talking about? He and the GOPe/RINOs he colluded with proposed just a reworked version of Obamacare as “repeal”. That was working with the (conservative) Republicans? Truth be told, Trump repeatedly spit in our (the deplorables/his base) by telling him that another version of Obamacare was “repeal” and “great” and if our reps didn’t back it he would primary them with obedient GOPe/RINO candidates.

That is what just happened. No reason for us to lie to ourselves or others about the situation.

[WildHighlander57]

9yearlurker,

Lyin’ Ryan put it together on the sly & tried to push it thru in the dead of night.

It’s Lyin Ryan’s bill, not President Trump’s.

[9YearLurker]

Sorry, but it was largely Trump’s Secretary Price’s bad bill—he’d been shaping it as part of the Ryan/GOPe/RINO gang in Congress for years. And it was introduced into Congress with Trump’s blessing and full support. The RINOs and Democrats in Trump’s inner circle were all for the bill and the dishonest sales job of it.

What Lyin’ Ryan did was to mislead Trump on whether it was a slam-dunk to get through Congress. And yes, Trump walked into Ryan’s trap on that.

[WildHighlander57]

Poison Pill wrote:

“’I prefer streamlined and run like a business.’

Government isn’t a business

Government is a Government.

If we only had an owners manual for it...”

We —do— have an owner’s manual.

The Constitution.

The powers not delegated to the feds are reserved to the States and the people.

‘The people’ in this case (streamlining portions of the present govt structure & running those portions like a business) are the businesspeople & companies to whom President Trump is talking.

10th Amendment!!!

[9YearLurker]

Yep—though Cheney is a bad idea (part of the Deep State Never-Trump mafia).