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Trump and Trade Team A Smarter Way to Work Trump Administration Key Trade Players July 28, 2017 David Schwartz Brent Connor Mark Lunn Marcie Hunnicutt Samir D. Varma Scott Diamond www.TrumpandTrade.com President Trump’s Full Cabinet Secretary of State Secretary of the Secretary of Defense Rex Tillerson Treasury James Mattis Steve Mnuchin Attorney General Secretary of the Interior Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Sessions Ryan K. Zinke Sonny Perdue Secretary of Commerce Secretary of Labor Secretary of Health and Wilbur Ross Alexander Acosta Human Services Tom Price Secretary of Housing & Secretary of Secretary of Energy Urban Development Transportation Rick Perry Ben Carson Elaine Chao Secretary of Education Secretary of Veterans Secretary of Homeland Betsy DeVos Affairs Security David Shulkin John Kelly Source: National Journal research, 2017. 2 President Trump’s Cabinet Cabinet Confirmations Committee Confirmed by Nominee Position Senate committee holding hearing Approved? full Senate? Alexander Acosta Sec. of Labor Health, Education, Labor & Pensions 60 – 38 Ben Carson Sec. of HUD Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs 58 – 41 Elaine Chao Sec. of Transportation Commerce, Science & Transportation 93 – 6 Betsy DeVos Sec. of Education Health, Education, Labor & Pensions 51 – 50* Nikki Haley Ambassador to the UN Foreign Relations 96 – 4 Sec of Homeland John Kelly Homeland Security & Gov. Affairs Security 88 – 11 Robert Lighthizer Trade representative Commerce, Science & Transportation 82 – 14 James Mattis Sec of Defense Armed Services 98 – 1 Linda McMahon Small Business Admin. Small Business & Entrepreneurship 81 – 19 Steven Mnuchin Sec. of Treasury Finance 53 – 47 Mick Mulvaney Director of OMB Budget 51 – 49 *After a 50-50 tie, VP Mike Pence cast the tie- breaking vote in favor of confirming DeVos Source: National Journal research, 2017. 3 President Trump’s Cabinet Cabinet Confirmations Committee Confirmed by Nominee Position Senate committee holding hearing Approved? full Senate? Sonny Perdue Sec. of Agriculture Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry 87 – 11 Rick Perry Sec. of Energy Energy & Natural Resources 62 – 37 Mike Pompeo Director of the CIA Intelligence 66 – 32 Tom Price Sec. of HHS Health, Education, Labor & Pensions 52 – 47 Scott Pruitt EPA Administrator Energy & Natural Resources 52 – 46 Wilbur Ross Sec. of Commerce Commerce, Science & Transportation 72 – 27 Jeff Sessions Attorney General Judiciary 52 – 47 David Shulkin Sec. of Veterans’ Affairs Veterans’ Affairs 100 – 0 Rex Tillerson Sec. of State Foreign Relations 56 – 43 Ryan Zinke Sec. of Interior Energy & Natural Resources 68 – 31 Source: National Journal research, 2017 4 Office of the Secretary of State – Key Players • Deputy Secretary: John J. Sullivan • Under Secretary for Political Affairs: Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. Secretary of State • Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security: Vacant • Bureau of Political-Military Affairs: Acting Assistant Secretary Tina Kaidanow • Directorate of Defense Trade Controls: Deputy Assistant Rex Tillerson Secretary, Defense Trade Controls, Brian Nilsson Prior: Chairman and CEO, • Chief of Staff: Margaret J.A. Peterlin ExxonMobil Source: National Journal research; ExxonMobil; LinkedIn; Zeeshan Aleem, “Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state is a Putin-friendly Exxon CEO,” Vox, December 13, 2016; Rebecca Shabad, “Rex Tillerson grilled on ExxonMobil conflicts, Russia sanctions, climate change at confirmation,” CBS News, January 12, 2016. 5 Office of the Secretary of the Treasury – Key Players • Deputy Secretary: Vacant • Under Secretary for International Affairs: Secretary of the Department of the Treasury Nathan Sheets • Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence: Sigal P. Mandelker • Office of Foreign Assets Control: John Smith • Chief of Staff: Eli Miller Steven Mnuchin Prior: Finance chairman of the Trump campaign Sources: Wall Street Journal, “Trump Treasury choice Steven Mnuchin vows to ‘strip back” November 30, 2016; Bloomberg, “Inside the mind of Mnuchin: Too-strong dollar may hurt economy,” January 23, 2017; Housing Wire, “Trump treasury pick: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be privatized,” November 30, 2016; Bloomberg, “Mnuchin: I support the Volcker rule,” January 19, 2017. 6 Office of the Secretary of Commerce – Key Players • Deputy Secretary: Vacant • Under Secretary for International Trade: Vacant; Secretary of Commerce responsibilities currently being handled by Israel Hernandez, deputy chief of staff for Secretary Ross • Under Secretary for Economic Affairs: Brad Burke, acting • Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade Wilbur Ross Administration: Kenneth Hyatt Prior: • Bureau of Industry and Security: Acting Chairman and CEO, INVESCO Private Capital Undersecretary Daniel Hill • Asst. Secretary for Export Administration: Matthew Borman Sources: New York Times, “Wilbur Ross vows to push Trump’s trade agenda, starting with NAFTA,” January 17, 2017; CNBC, “Commerce nominee Wilbur Ross: Trade partners have to play by our rules,” January 18, 2017; Washington Post, “Commerce nominee Ross says top priority is renegotiating NAFTA,” January 18, 2017; Wall Street Journal, “Commerce Secretary nominee Ross offers preview of trade policy,” January 18, 2017. 7 Office of the U.S. Trade Representative – Key Players • Deputy USTR: Both positions vacant • Asst. USTR for Trade Policy and Economics: U.S. Trade Representative Edward Gresser • Asst. USTR for Monitoring and Enforcement: Juan Millan • Asst. USTR for Western Hemisphere: John Melle • Chief of Staff: Jamieson Greer Robert Lighthizer Prior: Attorney in private practice; Deputy USTR • General Counsel: Stephen Vaughn • Senior Advisor: Timothy Reif Source: Richard Sisk, “Mattis could see Senate clash on women in combat, PTSD,” Military.com, December 1, 2026; Dan Lamothe, “Trump picks retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense,” The Washington Post, December 1, 2016; Rebecca Shabad, “James Mattis defends NATO, calls Russia a threat at confirmation hearing,” CBS News, January 12, 2017. 8 Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy – Key Players • The mission of the newly created OTMP is to defend and serve American workers and domestic Director of OTMP manufacturers while advising the president on policies to increase economic growth, decrease the trade deficit, and strengthen the United States’ manufacturing and defense industrial bases. • Peter Navarro, who was previously named to head the White House’s National Trade Council which was Peter Navarro never formally established, leads OTMP and is Prior: Professor at University currently the only known appointee in this office. of California, Irvine Source: Richard Sisk, “Mattis could see Senate clash on women in combat, PTSD,” Military.com, December 1, 2026; Dan Lamothe, “Trump picks retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense,” The Washington Post, December 1, 2016; Rebecca Shabad, “James Mattis defends NATO, calls Russia a threat at confirmation hearing,” CBS News, January 12, 2017. 9 Executive Office of the President – Key Players • Senior Advisor: Jared Kushner • Senior Advisor for Policy: Stephen Miller • Chief White House Strategist: Steve Bannon • Chief of Staff: Reince Priebus 10 The Trump administration lags behind its predecessors in filling key positions Number of administration officials nominated and confirmed Up to July 10th of the first term, excluding judicial and non-civilian nominations ■ Confirmed ■ Nominated (on executive calendar) ■ Nominated (in committee) ■ Failed Trump 48 29 116 4 Obama 200 39 112 5 6 W. Bush 132 156 2 [VALUE]* Clinton 196 55 4 [VALUE]** H.W. Bush 143 74 1 *No executive calendar for July 10, 1993 – the July 13, 1993 executive calendar is used **No executive calendar for July 10, 1989 – the July 11, 1989 executive calendar used Sources: Partnership for the Public Service, 2017; 11 With 359 sub-cabinet positions left vacant, there are fewer people to make sure the government runs smoothly Status of key sub-cabinet nominations As of July 20, 2017 ■ No nominee ■ Awaiting nomination ■ Awaiting confirmation ■ Confirmed 15 145 359 209 49 Source: “Tracking how many key positions Trump has filled so far,” Washington Post, April 15, 2017. 12 Our Trump and Trade Team David M. Schwartz Mark Lunn Samir D. Varma Partner; Partner Partner International Trade Mark.Lunn@ Samir.Varma@ Practice Group ThompsonHine.com ThompsonHine.com Leader 202.263.4115 202.263.4136 David.Schwartz@ ThompsonHine.com 202.263.4170 Brent Connor Marcie Hunnicutt Scott E. Diamond Senior Counsel Associate Senior Legislative & Brent.Connor@ Marcie.Hunnicutt@ Regulatory Policy ThompsonHine.com ThompsonHine.com Advisor 202.263.4188 937.443.6915 Scott.Diamond@ ThompsonHine.com 202.263.4197 A Smarter Way to Work www.TrumpandTrade.com.
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