White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, it seems, is back. Time reported Thursday that after weeks of President Trump's chief strategist Stephen Bannon reigning supreme, the president has instructed Priebus to "enforce more orderly lines of authority and communication from now on":
According to senior administration officials, Trump hauled in some half-dozen of his key advisers for a brisk dressing-down. Everything goes through chief of staff Reince Priebus, he directed. Nothing flows that hasn't been scheduled by his deputy Katie Walsh. "You're going to see probably a slower, more deliberative process," one official told Time. [Time]
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