Boston Consulting Group's Ron Nicol as director of agency action. Nicol's biography on the Boston Consulting Group website says he has worked on major business transformations for Fortune 50 companies, and that he "specializes in strategy development, organization transformation and delayering, customer discovery, merger and acquisition advice, and the development of major cost-reduction programs." According to the chart, Nicol oversees six key issue areas: defense, national security, economic issues, domestic issues, management/budget, and "Agency Transform. & Innovation."

From November 2003 to March 2004, Lieutenant General Kellogg served at the U.S. government as Chief Operating Officer of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq. He served as Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division and worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff as Director for all computing and communications for U.S. forces. Lieutenant General Kellogg served as a Member of the U.S. Army from 1971 to July 2003, when he was a Lieutenant General and a highly decorated war veteran. During his decorated 32-year Army career, he served as Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computers for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Lieutenant General Burgess retired from the U.S. Army after more than thirty years of service. Throughout his accomplished career, he served as the 17th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Director of Intelligence Staff at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

Trump’s ability to honor his campaign rhetoric will depend on the role of the so-called “shadow government,” and the president’s ideals to stick to his beliefs.“We look at the president, we look at what he said, we look at what he might do when you look at his advisors,” Paul said.

“But quite frankly there is an outside source which we refer to as the 'deep state' or the 'shadow government'. There is a lot of influence by people which are actually more powerful than our government itself, our president,” the congressman said.

“Yes, Trump is his own guy, more so than most of those who have ever been in before. We hope he can maintain an independence and go in the right direction. But I fear the fact that there is so much that can be done secretly, out of control of our apparent government and out of the view of so many citizens,” he added.

Dorm wrote:Uncle Mitch, Senator majority leader, pours cold water on the $1 trillion Trump stimulus plan
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Elaine Chao, the future Sec of Transportation and Mitch's wife, are going to be having some interesting talks with the Trumpinator. She would be hypothetical oversee a good chunk of the promised infrastructure cash.