Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Jared Kushner Will Just Fix Everything

President Trump's son-in-law has a new assignment: Reinventing the government. He'll take care of it while he brings peace to the Middle East.

March 27, 2017 at 3:06 PM UTC

By Timothy L. O'Brien

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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After a week that began with the FBI disclosing that it’s investigating President Donald Trump’s campaign team for possibly colluding with Russia to tilt the 2016 election, and ended with a devastating legislative debacle on health care, the president decided to regain momentum by launching his 36-year-old son-in-law into the fray.

Jared Kushner, according to a Washington Post account, will oversee a new “SWAT team” to be unveiled on Monday. Its goal is to reinvent the federal government. The entire federal government. Trump has already tasked Kushner with bringing peace to the Middle East (“If you can’t produce Middle East peace, nobody can,” Trump said to him during a ball on Inauguration eve), and his West Wing portfolio includes other significant domestic and foreign policy assignments.