Trump’s White House shake-up a retooling effort ahead of Democrats’ House takeover

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from The Washington Times,
12/14/18:

President’s tweet announcing Nick Mulvaney as acting chief of staff surprises even advisers.

Mick Mulvaney showed up for a shutdown planning meeting with President Trump on Friday afternoon as his budget chief. Soon afterward, the president surprised the country — and apparently his own advisers — by tweeting that he had made Mr. Mulvaney his chief of staff.

It was classic Trump: announcing the biggest of moves in 280-character bites on Twitter and leaving his staff to play catch-up, working on the fly to carry out the surprise decision.

The moves are part of a dizzying year-end shake-up as Mr. Trump retools the White House ahead of his confrontation with divided government in Washington.

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