Tag: resignations

Members of Trump’s Infrastructure Panel Resign in Protest

The following article by John M. Donnelly was posted on the Roll Call website August 23, 2017:

Administration not responsive to sound advice, letter says

The departing panelists cited President Donald Trump’s recent comments on the racial unrest in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month. Credit:  Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo

More than a quarter of a blue-ribbon panel of experts that advises President Donald Trump on infrastructure security submitted a joint resignation letter to him Monday because, they wrote, his actions jeopardize U.S. security and “undermine” America’s “moral infrastructure.”

Seven members of the 27-person National Infrastructure Advisory Council, mostly Democrats, are stepping down, said Cristin Dorgelo, one of the resigning members, in an email to CQ Roll Call. Dorgelo, a senior counselor at Mission Partners LLC, was formerly chief of staff for President Barack Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The council, created in 2001, advises the president through the Homeland Security secretary on critical U.S. infrastructure and information systems. Its members are drawn from the private sector, government and academia. Continue reading “Members of Trump’s Infrastructure Panel Resign in Protest”

Trump vs. The Business Community

The following article by Steve Chapman was posted on the Creators website August 20, 2017:

Photo: Dominick, Reuter

Most business executives fumed and groused for the eight years Barack Obama was in the White House. He was a former community organizer who had never met a payroll, and those in the corporate boardrooms thought he was no friend of free enterprise.

In 2010, New York real estate and media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman said Obama’s “demonization of business” was discouraging investment, sapping job growth and generally creating an “economic Katrina.” Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Technology Association, called Obama “the most anti-business president” in his lifetime. Former General Electric Chairman Jack Welch implored the president, “Stop it. You can’t go industry by industry … through intimidation, business by business by business.” Continue reading “Trump vs. The Business Community”