The officials included Vice-President Mike Pence, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, senior strategist Steve Bannon and counsellor Kellyanne Conway. Trump said he talked about the ban a lot during the campaign and "we're now putting it into effect." ISIS planIn a pair of separate actions, Trump took steps to begin restructuring the White House National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council. Under an executive order that Trump signed in the presence of the news media, every political appointee joining the executive branch on or after Jan. 20 — the day Trump took office — must agree to the lobbying bans. Trump had released the plan for a lobbying ban a few weeks before the November election, one of several promised policies aimed at curbing corruption and the influence of lobbyists in Washington.

Source: CBC News January 29, 2017 00:46 UTC