More Women Are Speaking for the White House

The White House reorganized its communications shop Tuesday, making longtime Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks the permanent communications director, bringing in Bush White House veteran Mercedes Schlapp to run strategic communications, and promoting a pair of longtime aides to fill other vacancies. The new structure gives the White House communications team a historic concentration of women in senior roles, with Press Secretary Sarah Sanders already at the podium. The tide is turning for Silicon Valley in Washington and across the country, as the wonder of invention yields to new concerns over privacy, economic displacement, and inequality. The White House has refugee admissions in the crosshairs, as it weighs limiting entrants to the lowest levels in a generation. And Trump’s voter commission head relies on bogus information. Here are your must reads: Must Reads There’s Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley The bad new politics of big tech [BuzzFeed] Teflon Don Confounds Democrats Democrats have attacked the president every which way, but polling and focus groups show none of it’s working [Politico] White House Weighs Lowering Refugee Quota to Below 50,000 Lowest in a generation [New York Times] Trump Ambassador Qualifications: Wrote a Cookbook, Sang in a Church Choir What they told Congress [Yahoo] Trump’s Push for Tax Cuts Is Coming Up Against a Familiar Challenge: Divided GOP Factionalized party still has no plan [Washington Post] Sound Off “The...
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