Trump’s White House shake-up a retooling effort ahead of Democrats’ House takeover
12/16/18
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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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