Sentences with phrase «transition officials»

Trump is expected to pick Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers as Interior secretary, a senior Trump transition official confirmed to CNBC.

A separate transition official said Trump is also considering former CIA Director David Petraeus and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker for the job.

President - elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers as Interior secretary, a senior Trump transition official confirmed to CNBC on Friday.

Fortune reached out to the three transition officials for comment and will update this story if any response is received.

«We were active in the effort to stymie his advances,» one former transition official told the publication.

Congressional Democrats raised ethics questions about the framework of a defense fund set up to help pay legal costs for White House, Trump campaign and transition officials caught up in investigations into Russian meddling in the election.

A lawyer for the Trump transition team said Mueller's investigators improperly reviewed some emails from transition officials, an allegation that comes amid charges of bias by the special counsel's probe.

The «political atmospherics» of the meeting might polish Trump's optics, but Bledsoe is skeptical about its influence on public policy, which is being overseen in some cases by transition officials who question the scientific findings on global warming.

But in a presentation to transition officials last month, ORD officials stressed the legal mandates that require EPA to conduct much of its scientific work, quoting paragraphs from the Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and Toxic Substances Control Act.

Next Page: The setup and starting line [pagebreak] Setting up for transition Our official transition area, a giant fenced - in lawn in Riverside Park that now held about 2,000 bikes in neat (but very crowded) rows, was bustling.

Trump transition officials have prohibited scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency from speaking to the media, removed climate change references from the White House webpage and said that they will require to submit their work for review before its published.

Shortly thereafter, however, the bank told Reuters that Gorkov had met with Kushner in his capacity as «the head of Kushner companies» — not as a transition official, as the White House had claimed.

But Politico, citing three sources close to the Trump transition, reports he bowed out following claims that he had an affair with another transition official.

Retired Senator Dan Coats of Indiana is expected to be named the Trump administration's director of national intelligence, according to a Trump transition official.

Trump transition officials have suggested that NOAA handle NASA's earth science research, but cuts to NOAA suggest the administration is not interested in continuing that research.

President - elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, a transition official said, signaling Mr. Trump's determination to dismantle President Obama's efforts to counter climate change.