Ivanka Trump adds a chief of staff

Source: Politico | April 21, 2017 | Annie Karni

The first daughter is expanding her White House team, and is leaning heavily on veterans of the George W. Bush administration.

Ivanka Trump is quietly staffing up, and she’s filling out her team in the West Wing with former officials from President George W. Bush’s administration.

In addition to her close adviser Dina Powell, who served as assistant to the president for personnel in the Bush White House, the first daughter — who now serves as a special assistant to the president — has hired a chief of staff who worked under Bush’s education secretary, Margaret Spellings.

Julie Radford — who like her boss is a mother of three young children — was chosen to work for the first daughter after being recruited in February by Powell.

A graduate of Southern Methodist University, Radford, 34, first connected with Powell as a consultant to Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, which was overseen by Powell in her previous job. Based in New Orleans, Radford oversaw Goldman Sachs’ entrepreneur-boosting programs in Florida, Louisiana and Texas.

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    EVERYDAY #15242

    Who pays for all these staffers?

    (I think I know the answer to that question.)

    Dom Ruinart #15253

    Major concentration of power in the hands of the Trumps. This is looking more and more like an autocracy.

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