WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump made his first two key personnel appointments on Sunday, one an overture to Republican circles by naming GOP chief Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff, the other a shot across the bow of the Washington establishment by tabbing Breitbart news executive Stephen Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor.
The two men had made up the president-elect's chief of staff shortlist, and while Priebus received that job, Bannon's post also is expected to wield significant clout. The media executive with ties to the alt-right and white nationalist movement was given top billing in the press release announcing their appointments.
BOSTON — President-elect Donald Trump's campaign vow to, if elected, strip away federal funding from American cities that participate in so-called "sanctuary" programs for illegal aliens, predictably has city councilors across the commonwealth up in arms.
On Tuesday Boston City Council President Michelle Wu took to social media to point out that the Hub happens to be such a city, noting that a series of sanctuary city protections, which bar police from working with federal immigration authorities, "unanimously passed" in 2014.
