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A Republican senator expresses his displeasure with incoming Suzy Wiles White House chief of staff.
“I texted you three days ago,” the congressman said.
Wiles, who runs? donald trump The campaign said she had received it and would respond, but didn’t sound in a hurry.
There’s no doubt her phone is filled with messages from people looking to gain jobs or influence in the incoming Trump administration.
The behind-the-scenes maneuvering of Trump’s second term may shed light on the legislative and executive battles the next White House will be forced to engage in. (Getty Images)
But the tussle reveals the difficulties Trump may face in a city he controls, with both chambers of Congress run by Republicans (Kamala Harris peacefully certified the transfer of power yesterday amid the Capitol riots) the day after the year).
The flip side of nearly unlimited influence is that when things go wrong, you have no one to blame.
There is also a black hole known as Congress. Towed Mike Johnson Trump even took a phone call from his golf course at the finish line of the speakership election, now facing a dilemma after a Christmas debt-ceiling fight just pushed the budget battle to March.
Using a process called reconciliation to lower the threshold for a Senate vote from 60 to 51 votes — something both parties have used to achieve party-line dominance — Trump backed “a beautiful Big Bill.” That would include budget cuts, energy deregulation, tax cuts, border crackdowns and other presidential priorities.
But many in Congress support two separate bills, and some in Trumpland believe Congress simply doesn’t have the bandwidth to take a kitchen-sink approach.
Therefore, this beautiful big bill may not pass until June, denying the 47th president any chance of an early victory.
Trump releases a lot of news, shows restraint at press conferences even as he lashes out at media
Johnson will win by just 1 vote, making it difficult for him to deliver the deep spending cuts that hardliners want, echoing a losing battle Kevin McCarthy.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security will have a hard time launching a major initiative because, like other agencies, it operates on a stopgap spending budget that nearly shut down the government at Christmas.
The risk in pushing for two bills is that once the first is passed, the momentum to approve the second measure could dissipate, even if it includes Trump priorities such as tax cuts.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s one-vote majority gives him little room for error as he controls the caucus around the incoming president’s agenda. (played by Valerie Plesch)
Trump hedged his bets yesterday, telling radio host Hugh Hewitt: “I would prefer one over the other, but … I’m open to either way as long as we can get something passed quickly.”
Washington is a city obsessed with titles and influence, and that will affect how the White House operates.
Wiles helped demote some positions that had been assistants to the president to deputy assistants to the president — something no sane outsider would care about, but a big deal to insiders. Because after the assistant position reaches the limit, the only option is to create a bunch of deputy positions.
Wiles told Axios: “I don’t welcome people who want to work alone or be the star… My team and I will not tolerate backbiting, inappropriate second-guessing or dramatic behavior. These are counterproductive to the mission.” “.
Incoming press secretary Caroline Leavitt was also stripped of the large office her predecessor had occupied for at least three decades. This will be given to another communications assistant.
I remember being in Mike McCurry’s office on the second floor when he was press secretary, bill clinton While I was working on my book Spin Loops, I walked in for a chat. The reason for such a large office is to communicate with the media and sometimes conduct interviews, which most of the smaller offices in the West Wing cannot accommodate.
Anyone in Wiles’ sensitive position would inevitably unsettle some officials in the decision-making process. But Trump views her as a grandmother and doesn’t yell at other officials like he does over disagreements.
As for Elon Musk’s A powerful character, Trump enjoys the company of rich people, and X’s owner is the richest man on earth. So he has influence until he loses influence, if there is a future altercation.
Furthermore, once Trump moves from Mar-a-Lago to the White House, it will be difficult for Musk to stick around, unless he wants to give Elon the Lincoln Bedroom.
Currently, the transition is organized chaos. But Trump knows full well that he’s done this job before, and when there’s a terrorist attack, a border incident, or a rise in grocery prices under his jurisdiction, he’s owned it.
At the same time, with Kamala Harris Yesterday, proving his defeat in the usual way – with live coverage given the history of January 6th – Donald Trump posted the following:
Trump has publicly expressed his feelings about the Biden team’s handling of the presidential transition. (Getty/AP)
“Biden is doing everything he can to make the transition as difficult as possible, from never-before-seen laws to expensive and ridiculous executive orders targeting the new green scam and other money-wasting shenanigans. Don’t worry, these ‘orders’ Everything will be stopped soon and we will become a nation full of common sense and strength!”
Is this worse than what happened? January 6, 202?
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It’s true that the outgoing president has issued an order halting oil exploration along 625 million acres of offshore waters, but there’s no reason the “drill, baby, drill” president can’t reverse that, even though it might slow him down .
Harris gave a brief speech yesterday about the peaceful transfer of power, and Biden noted in an op-ed in the Washington Post that we must never forget what happened on that dark day.
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No matter whose perspective you agree with, I think it’s fair to say that this issue was litigated during the election and Americans voted to return Trump to the White House and they knew exactly what happened during the televised riots.
