President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced more than two dozen intended appointments to what the president referred to as “key administration posts.”
Perhaps the most prominent name on the list is White House aide Kellyanne Conway, who has been nominated to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Conway, the top adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, served as a close aide to the president from the beginning of his administration until she stepped down in August, citing a need to spend more time with her family. She most recently served as an adviser to Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, would be nominated to the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, Trump said in a statement issued by the White House.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Lynn Friess, the wife of Republican megadonor Foster Friess, would be appointed as members of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, according to the president.
Other appointments are predominantly seats on panels including the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Military Academy, the National Cancer Advisory Board, Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board, the Community Development Advisory Board, the Arctic Research Commission, and others.
Trump last week announced a similar list of appointees, which included four nominees each to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and two appointments to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
In a staffing shakeup at the Pentagon last Friday, nine Defense Business Board members were dismissed and replaced with 11 new appointments, including former Trump 2016 campaign officials Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie joining the panel. Board members provide the secretary of defense and other senior leaders with advice from a private sector perspective to assist them with managerial decisions.
Some media have framed the staffing moves as part of a long-standing practice called “burrowing,” where an outgoing administration transitions political appointees into more secure civil service positions, giving them protection from dismissal by an incoming administration and allowing them to continue to serve and, potentially, influence policy.
Trump has not conceded the race for the White House, however, and continues to both mount legal challenges against what he says was a “rigged election.”
The Epoch Times has not projected a winner of the presidential election, opting to wait until all claims have been settled.
From The Epoch Times
