The businessman leading former President Donald Trump’s presidential transition team is promising to bring loyal appointees in to lead the federal government if the former president clinches the White House in November.
“I promise you, the greatest field of people ever to walk into government is going to join him on Jan. 20,” Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of Trump’s presidential transition team, said Friday at a town hall in Michigan.
Lutnick, CEO of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, broadly described the types of people he’s looking for as he’s drafting personnel plans for a second Trump administration. He emphasized that he’s prioritizing loyalty and fidelity among appointees after Trump’s first term was marked by heavy turnover and infighting among senior government officials.
Incoming presidents are tasked with filling about 4,000 political appointments throughout the executive branch.
