Posted on 03/26/2017 11:22:01 PM PDT by 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.
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There is also likelier scenario if Dems get the House (or come close to it) in 2018.
Trump is far more comfortable with agenda of "spending Other People's Money" (after all that's what he's done most of his life and now he doesn't have to beg bankers for $$) than dealing with nuts and bolts of policy, so working / "making deals" with Dems on spending (e.g., $1T for infrastructure, using public domain authority, even "healthcare for all" including Ivanka's pet causes like paid maternity leave and pre-kindergartens etc. etc.) and trying to peel off few GOP Senators to pass them would be his way to ensure his "legacy" and try to bump up his approval ratings (and maybe stave off the Dems' threat of impeachment proceedings in the process)...
This would put him back into his element — selling stuff / ideas and taking credit if they pass, and blaming conservatives if they don't.
Steve Bannon pretty much confided in that when he alluded to the desire to do "some things that conservatives will not like."
Kushner is a lucky spawn.
Bill Clinton got slammed when he tried to give healthcare to his wife, can you imagine if he had given his brother Roger foreign relations, and the rest of his domestic policy as well?
Kushner, especially, is putting Trump at risk of a nepotism/crony corruption impeachment charge, should the Dems retake the House.
You keep spouting the lies about Kushner. You are absolutely wrong in your vindictive jealousy
This deal alone will be enough to sink Trump, should the Dems get the upper hand in 2018:
“Vindictive jealousy?” You haven’t got a thing to hang that one on.
But we know that Kushner is a lifelong Democrat who has brought other Democrats high into Trump’s administration, that his wife has an office in the WH from which to push her liberal identity politics agenda, and that with his very first piece of legislation Trump has not only moved to the left, but he has started trashing and targeting the Freedom Caucus as well.
You can think what you want, this is not what i voted for.
Many conservatives who supported Trump viewed him as (potentially) the best of a bad lot. His self-dealing connections were no secret. TrumpCare/RyanCare supposedly had a scant 17% popular support, yet Trump was apparently anxious to shove it down our throats. When he promised to rid us of Obamacare, who knew that he would attempt to replace it with something worse.
Part of the ongoing globalist agenda is to eradicate conservative philosophy and values from the collective consciousness. Notice that Trump is wasting no time attacking the Freedom Caucus. He will likely continue to demonize and marginalize conservatives going forward.
I fear you are correct.
That's his MO — demonizing anybody who stands in his way or doesn't idolize him — whether by Twitter, in person, or by proxies (like FoxNews or other surrogates). He's attacked conservatives and played victim during the primaries, too, except many people thought it was "cute" and funny at the time.
His self-dealing connections were no secret.
Anybody can open the Art of the Deal on almost any page and see for themselves that the book is mistitled — it should be called The Art of Self-Dealing. Why people thought that it meant he would represent them, based on the title of this book, is beyond me — it's quite clear who the single beneficiary of that exploit was supposed to be. But people didn't read, they judged the book by its cover [title].
"To Serve Men" — "It's a cookbook!"
You can think what you want, this is not what I voted for.
I hear you and understand you. That's why it was "collective" and in quotes "we" — not you.
Trump wasn’t my first choice, he was the only alternative to the nutcase communist.
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