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You're Hired: Tracking the Trump Administration Transition - November 22, 2016
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This is the November 22, 2016, edition of a daily email sent from November 2016 to September 2017 that covered Donald Trump's presidential transition team, potential cabinet appointees, and the different policy positions of those individuals who may have had an effect on the new administration. Previous editions of "You're Hired" can be found here.
Possible nominees
Trump announced on Twitter that he is considering retired neurosurgeon and former 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson for secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The announcement comes one week after Carson reportedly turned down an offer to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services.
Carson’s professional experience includes working as the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and running his own philanthropic organization. Carson endorsed Trump after suspending his own bid for the Republican nomination in March 2016. Prior to his presidential bid, he had never run for elected office.
What might Carson’s approach to housing policy look like if he is nominated and confirmed? Carson has spoken critically of HUD policies under the Obama administration. In July 2015, he criticized a HUD rule that provided guidelines for communities to use to ensure their compliance with the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Carson, in an op-ed for The Washington Times, referred to this rule as an example of “government-engineered attempts to legislate racial equality,” which he said, “create consequences that often make matters worse.” Carson added, “There are reasonable ways to use housing policy to enhance the opportunities available to lower-income citizens, but ... entrusting the government to get it right can prove downright dangerous.”
Executive actions
Trump released a short YouTube video last night detailing six executive actions he plans to pursue on the first day of his presidency. Most of the actions he mentioned were included in an October 22 speech in which he laid out a plan for his first 100 days in office. That plan included a total of 18 executive actions that Trump said he intended to take on his first day in office. Trump added at the end of the video that he will provide more updates in the coming days. He described six distinct areas of executive actions, detailed below:
- Trade: Trump said he would issue a “notification of intent” to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he called “a potential disaster for our country.”
- Energy: He promised to cancel restrictions on energy production in the U.S., including shale energy and clean coal.
- Regulations: Trump will formulate a rule requiring the elimination of two government regulations for every new regulation created by his administration.
- Cybersecurity: Trump will ask the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a cybersecurity plan.
- Immigration: He will direct the Department of Labor to investigate potential abuses of visa programs.
- Ethics reform: Trump will impose a five-year ban on executive officials from lobbying after they leave office and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.
See also
- You're Hired: Tracking the Trump Administration Transition
- Donald Trump presidential transition team
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