Republicans don’t know who to talk to at White House
By Scott Wong - 08/28/17 06:00 AM EDT
With Reince Priebus and Stephen Bannon both out, Republicans on Capitol Hill are asking who they can talk to at the White House ahead of a crucial, difficult stretch in the legislative calendar.
The summer departures of Trump’s first chief of staff and chief strategist have created something of a communications vacuum along Pennsylvania Avenue, since Priebus and Bannon did the “bulk of the outreach” on Capitol Hill, GOP sources said.
Priebus’s replacement, new chief of staff John Kelly, the former Homeland Security secretary and a retired Marine general, is respected on both sides of the aisle but doesn’t have long-standing relationships on the Hill.
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