Remaking the Presidency with Trump Cabinet
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From the Right
Transition to Trump: Should conservatives just trust Trump on his cabinet choices?Sometimes, it’s just a matter of trust.
It’s safe to say Donald Trump hit a home run with conservatives upon naming Senator Jeff Sessions to be his administration’s Attorney General and Stephen Bannon for his senior advisor and co-right-hand-man along with chief of staff designee Reince Priebus.
From the Left
Donald Trump is assembling the richest administration in modern American historyWhen George W. Bush assembled his first Cabinet in 2001, news reports dubbed them a team of millionaires, and government watchdogs questioned whether they were out of touch with most Americans’ problems. Combined, that group had an inflation-adjusted net worth of about $250 million — which is roughly one-tenth the wealth of Donald Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary alone.
From the Center
How Donald Trump is already remaking the presidencyTrump's ability to command attention is unparalleled in the modern era. Yet in other ways, he is behaving as a conventional Republican, which is consolidating the party behind him.
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