President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a new White House office tasked with reforming the federal bureaucracy by applying lessons from the business world, Trump is expected to announce Monday.
The office, to be called the White House Office of American Innovation, will be filled with former business executives and report directly to the president, according to The Washington Post, which first reported details of the Kushner-led team.
“All Americans, regardless of their political views, can recognize that government stagnation has hindered our ability to properly function, often creating widespread congestion and leading to cost overruns and delays,” Trump said in a statement to the Post. “I promised the American people I would produce results, and apply my ‘ahead of schedule, under budget’ mentality to the government.”
Kushner, who raised eyebrows with his family ski trip to Colorado during last week’s ultimately unsuccessful scramble to pass legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, characterized his new office as “an offensive team” in an interview with the Post. To begin its work, it will focus on opioid abuse, reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs, modernizing technology across the federal government, and working on “transformative projects” that would fit within the president’s promised infrastructure package.
“The government should be run like a great American company,” Kushner said in his interview with the Post. “Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.”
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