Trump Staff Picks Straddle Establishment-Outsider Divide
- Key White House roles for the pair who helped seal Trump win
- Priebus, a Ryan ally, pulls Trump closer to lawmakers
Trump Looks to Establishment, Alt-Right to Build Staff
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Donald Trump’s choice of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for White House chief of staff marks his greatest capitulation to the GOP establishment so far and caps a weekend spent watering down some of his boldest promises from the campaign trail.
Taken together, the moves signal that Trump is moving aggressively from campaigning to governing in ways that could disappoint his most ardent supporters, who believed he would “drain the swamp” and overturn a Washington Republican hierarchy that they felt ignored their concerns.