The big thinker remains chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who has used chaos as a tool for implementing transformative policy but who aides said is now trying to adapt to working within Priebus’s structure. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, left, and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller listen during a meeting with House and Senate legislators in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 2. In some ways, the dominant ethos of what the Trump administration hopes to be is one of efficiency and accomplishment, not ideology. Two senior White House aides — deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn and legislative affairs director Marc Short — also reached out individually to scores of lawmakers with a similar message. They were conciliatory and attentive, Portman said, offering him a message that has become the White House mantra in recent days: “We’re going to do better.”

Source: Washington Post February 04, 2017 22:40 UTC