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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A prominent New York financier is set to be named a top White House adviser to President-elect Donald Trump.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anthony Scaramucci will be tasked with outreach to the U.S. business and political community.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That's according to two sources with knowledge of the appointment not authorized to discuss that matter publicly.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Scaramucci was a top fundraiser during the campaign. He joins a growing contingent of former Goldman Sachs employees now set to join the new administration. Others include Trump senior adviser Steve Bannon and Treasury pick Steven Mnuchin.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Scaramucci's title is still being determined. He will likely head what was considered the Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs under President George W. Bush and is now run by Valerie Jarrett, a top aide to President Barack Obama.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">6:30 p.m.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President-elect Donald Trump hasn't yet been sworn into office, but he's already looking ahead to 2020.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump's team announced Thursday that he'll be keeping alive his presidential campaign committee, Donald J. Trump for President Inc.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump's former deputy campaign manager, Michael Glassner, will lead the group, along with Arizona deputy treasurer Sean Dollman and John Pence. The latter is Vice President-elect Mike Pence's nephew.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The group will focus on fundraising and building data for Trump's possible re-election in 2020 and will coordinate closely with the Republican National Committee.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Staff will continue working from New York's Trump Tower, where his campaign was based.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3:20 p.m.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to appoint Goldman Sachs partner Dina Powell to a senior role in his administration.</b></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump announced Thursday that Powell will serve as assistant to the president and senior counselor for economic initiatives. She will work on entrepreneurship, small business development and the empowerment of women, he said.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Powell is currently global head of impact investing at Goldman Sachs and president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. She recently has acted as an informal adviser to Ivanka Trump, who is focused on issues affecting women and families.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Powell is one of several former Goldman Sachs executives entering the Trump administration, including Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO'-chin), Trump's nominee for Treasury secretary, who worked there for 17 years.</p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Goldman Sachs partner to join Trump administration</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By BEN WHITE and ANNIE KARNI 01/11/17 12:11 PM EST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">NEW YORK — Dina Powell, a Goldman Sachs partner with deep ties to both Republicans and Democrats in Washington, is leaving the bank to join the Trump administration in a senior role that will focus on entrepreneurship, economic growth and the empowerment of women, people familiar with the matter said. She is expected to work closely with President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her highly influential husband, Jared Kushner.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Powell, president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and a major advocate for women</b>, would instantly become one of the more powerful people in Trump’s Washington. Ivanka Trump and her husband are expected to be among the president-elect’s most trusted advisers. Kushner on Monday was named a senior adviser to the incoming president.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">POLITICO reported last week that Powell has been informally advising Ivanka Trump on personnel and other issues for weeks. She is expected to provide a connection between the Trump White House — eyed with skepticism by many in the GOP establishment — and corporate America and Wall Street.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Powell, 42, served as chief of the personnel office in the White House under President George W. Bush and as an assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs in the Bush administration.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An Egyptian-born, Dallas-raised, fluent Arabic speaker, Powell also has strong relationships with senior Democrats including outgoing Obama White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and former Obama economic adviser Gene Sperling, among many others.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Powell will be the latest Goldman executive to take on a leading role for Trump. Steven Mnuchin, who worked at the bank for 17 years, is Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary. Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman and a friend of Powell’s, will serve as chair of the president’s National Economic Council.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Steve Bannon, who will be a top White House aide, also worked at Goldman, as did senior transition official Anthony Scaramucci, who could be up for a role at Treasury or elsewhere in the administration.<b> Jay Clayton, Trump’s pick to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, is a top Wall Street lawyer </b>at<b> Sullivan & Cromwell with deep ties to Goldman.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democrats have criticized Trump for relying so heavily on Wall Street executives, especially from Goldman, a bank the GOP nominee regularly ripped on the campaign trail. Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein appeared as a shadowy, dangerous figure in Trump’s final ad of the 2016 campaign.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in Powell, Trump will snare one of Goldman’s young stars. Her appointment will ease some of the anxiety in the financial world about Trump. Kushner and Ivanka Trump are viewed as more moderate voices inclined to temper some of the new president’s more provocative instincts on the environment, trade, immigration and other issues. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a highly progressive Democrat, praised Kushner’s appointment this week.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Powell connected with Ivanka Trump and Kushner last year and quickly won the trust of both Trump family members, people close to the transition said. <b>Powell is close to many senior Republicans and worked with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Bush administration.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Dina is one of the most capable people I know. She is creative and committed,” Rice told Politico. “She did crucial work for me at the State Department where we were trying to be more effective in outreach to the Muslim world and to empower women. Because of her own background as a woman of Egyptian descent she was a cultural ambassador — absolutely an essential member of my team.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Powell began her Washington career as a staffer for Rep. Dick Armey in House leadership in 1995. She was recruited to Goldman in 2007 by longtime partner John Rogers and built several programs at the bank including the Goldman Sachs Foundation, Goldman Sachs Gives and the Urban Investment Group. She became a partner in 2010. She is close to both Blankfein and Cohn.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At Goldman, Powell oversaw the “10,000 Women” program, one of the investment bank’s biggest charitable initiatives, which focuses on helping female entrepreneurs around the world. “She’s been great at doing it because she’s kind of lived it and she has exactly the right values,” said Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute. “I’m super psyched if she goes into the administration, because she will bring all of those ethics into the White House.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Powell’s partner, hedge fund manager David McCormick, is the front-runner to serve as deputy defense secretary in the Trump administration</b>, Bloomberg News reported. McCormick, president of Bridgewater Associates, was also reportedly on the short list for Treasury secretary, a post that ultimately went to Mnuchin.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Powell’s appointment will also be greeted with some enthusiasm among minority groups concerned about Trump’s fiery campaign rhetoric. “So much will depend on what the policies are, but what I can say is that Dina is not a shrinking violet,” said Marc Morial, the former New Orleans mayor and current president of the National Urban League. “She’s both charming and assertive, and if she’s given running room I think the opportunity for her to do something for small businesses, especially those run by women and people of color, will be significant.”</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div>