Peter Navarro served prison time related to Jan. 6. Now Trump is bringing him back as an adviser
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Trump also said he was changing course on his choice for White House counsel. He said his original pick, William McGinley, will work with the Department of Government Efficiency, which will be run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with the goal of cutting federal spending. Now David Warrington, who has worked as Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s personal lawyer and a lawyer for his campaign, will serve as White House counsel.
In addition, Trump announced the selections of former Rep. Billy Long of Missouri as IRS commissioner; the CEO of financial technology company Fiserv, Frank Bisignano, as Social Security Administration commissioner; former Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia to lead the Small Business Administration; Daniel Driscoll, an Army veteran who was a senior adviser to Vice President-elect JD Vance, as Army secretary; , a tech billionaire who conducted the first private spacewalk on Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket, as ; and Adam Boehler, a lead negotiator on the Abraham Accords team, as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs.
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Navarro, 75, has been a longtime critic of trade arrangements with China. After earning an economics doctorate from Harvard University, he worked as an economics and public policy professor at the University of California, Irvine. He ran for mayor of San Diego in 1992 and lost, only to launch other unsuccessful campaign efforts, including a 1996 race for Congress as a Democrat.
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Canadians were outraged, and Navarro later apologized.
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Slater worked for Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s National Economic Council during his first term, and she's been an adviser to Vance.
Trump also said Michael Faulkender would serve as deputy treasury secretary. A professor at the University of Maryland바카라 게임 웹사이트s Smith School of Business, Faulkender was the Treasury Department바카라 게임 웹사이트s assistant secretary for economic policy during Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s initial term. He has also been the chief economist at the America First Policy Institute, a think tank formed to further the Trump movement바카라 게임 웹사이트s policy agenda.
Outside the White House, Trump said that he had asked Michael Whatley to remain on as chair of the Republican National Committee. during the election along with Lara Trump, the wife of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s son Eric.
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AP Aerospace Writer Marcia Dunn in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Associated Press writer Josh Boak in Washington and Associated Press writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.