MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Tensions have been rising between Cabinet officials and White House advisers embedded at their agencies.
By By Michael Grunwald , Andrew Restuccia & Josh Dawsey @ Politico.com, May 1
The White House is quietly starting to pull the plug on its shadow Cabinet of Trump loyalists who had been dispatched to federal agencies to serve as the president’s eyes and ears.
These White House-installed chaperones have often clashed with the Cabinet secretaries they were assigned to monitor, according to sources across the agencies, with the secretaries expressing frustration that the so-called “senior White House advisers” are mostly young Trump campaign aides with little experience in government.
The tensions have escalated for weeks, prompting a recent meeting among Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and other administration officials, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. Now, some of the advisers are being reassigned or simply eased out [.....]