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

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

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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.

[RummyChick]

Why did he push a bill that forced vets into the va system instead of demanding it be tAken out before he could support it...oh and it gave subsidies to illegals

[RummyChick]

One more thing

JAIME GORELICK!

[Zenjitsuman]

Time to dust off the Grace commision report recommendations, and get Newt’s opinions.
Also, maybe the Wharton school could analyze the business efficiency of governmental departments and downsize them by which are least capable.

[phoneman08]

Trump has signaled he will try to get things done without FC support. He must, otherwise their 29 members will control the house agenda. Which means nothing will get done because 8% of the House says so.

[McCarthysGhost]

Luckily we don’t have to worry about rinocare anymore because now we are stuck with the job killing obamacare. And when it crashes we may even end up with single payer but at least we didn’t pass rinocare.

[nathanbedford]

"in light of your documented disparagement of the man... " (Emphasis supplied)

The last time I checked I have posted in excess of 15,000 replies in this forum and you choose three words that I allegedly wrote and you demand an explanation or an admission of guilt. Equally absurd, you claim "documentation" when you do not produce the documents.

You do not even supply context, a demand you made of me, which I provided, even after having provided the entire quote. Context from me but not, evidently, from thee.

But the main problem with all of this is that my motive in telling the truth is irrelevant. If you document a misstatement of fact then you have made a point. But if you merely disparage me you have proved nothing about Donald Trump.

In my previous reply I provided a link for a full version of my views on the fiasco of Rino care and on Trump's vision for the economy, at least what I presume to be his vision. I invite the reader to read something with context attached.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Bump.

[exnavy]

I am not interested in bigger, more expensive, more intrusive gubmint no matter who brings it.

[Russ]

I wish I lived in a world where every presidential pick was 100% conservative and every initiative had a perfect outcome. Until that magic day arrives I will continue to thank God for the leader we elected, flaws and all...

[ichabod1]

Not to worry, they have Jamie Gorelick advising them on ethics.

[kenmcg]

Big mistake on the Trumpster’s part. The kid is still wet behind the ears. Just because he was born with a silver spoon doesn’t make him an expert. Trump needs political insiders around him that know he ins and outs of DC politics. A Dick Cheney, a Newt or a Giulianni would be a good start.

[bert]

The sour grapes produce discord. The apparent fact that every mote of conservative dogma is not going to be addressed should not be cause for alarm

[dsc]

“So only negative outcomes are conceivable?”

Kushner is a liberal demonrat, isn’t he?

He works for Satan. No good will come of this.

[af_vet_1981]

... float above the daily political grind ...

IOW, bypass Congress as much as possible to bring change to people in need.

[bert]

Balderdacious drivel

[FreedomPoster]

Your first option has been formalized by Jerry Pournelle as The Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

I’m a big Pournelle fan.

[dsc]

Plain truth.

[wastedyears]

I don’t like this.

[raybbr]

Whether that is the focus of this "Thing" or not, there can be no doubt that reducing government—in numerous areas—is a goal of the Trump administration.

How is creating a new department in the govt reducing govt?

[SE Mom]

The son and daughter must be very very ethical or they will inevitably become a perversion of our system of representative government. That is not to say that is inevitable, just that the danger is there.

Yes, and with Jamie Gorelick as Ivanka's "ethics" counsel what do we have to worry about?