U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is moving rapidly to nominate loyalists to key administration positions. He has reportedly settled on Sen. Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state and Rep. Mike Waltz to be his national security advisor.
How much should we be reading into news of who might join Trump’s national security team? “Personnel choices will amplify what the president already believes on issues like immigration and trade, which are at the core of his beliefs and have been consistent across decades,” said Kori Schake, a conservative scholar who has been a critic of both Trump and the Biden administration, speaking on FP Live. “But on other issues, in the first Trump administration, there was that ‘tyranny of the final briefer’—the last person he talks to can be extraordinarily influential on issues he cares less about. So I think one of the most important people in a Trump administration is going to be whoever controls his White House schedule, which may mean the White House chief of staff will have an outsized role compared to other administrations.”
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