{"id":161,"date":"2024-11-11T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/klippenstein-miller-helping-steer-ag-transition-effort\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:18:08","slug":"klippenstein-miller-helping-steer-ag-transition-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/klippenstein-miller-helping-steer-ag-transition-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Klippenstein, Miller helping steer ag transition effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s Agriculture Department transition landing team is still assembling. But some early names working on the effort include Brian Klippenstein<b>,\u00a0<\/b>according to four people familiar with the conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Klippenstein, who\u2019s known as \u201cKlip,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/go.politicoemail.com\/?qs=29780e994108edd0c9aba1c7af723e79dc90dbdaa7828742cc7e9c5e4c80b5a43be540f817c7614f0617dfe3648e2c448f7af73eccc386b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was the key (and really only) official<\/a> scrambling to pull together the chaotic Trump USDA transition in 2016. He has a hand in shaping policy this time around, according to the four people.<\/p>\n<p>Carly Miller, Rep. Harriet Hageman\u2019s (R-Wyo.) chief of staff, is also working on compiling personnel lists for Trump\u2019s USDA transition.<\/p>\n<p>Both Miller and Klippenstein did not return calls about their transition roles. <\/p>\n<p>At this point, Trump\u2019s USDA transition is in \u201ca holding pattern\u201d with officials still awaiting instructions, according to another person familiar with the plans. They\u2019re expected to ramp up their work in the coming days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s Agriculture Department transition landing team is still assembling. But some early names working on the effort include Brian Klippenstein,\u00a0according to four people familiar with the conversations. Klippenstein, who\u2019s known as \u201cKlip,\u201d was the key (and really only) official scrambling to pull together the chaotic Trump USDA transition in 2016. He has a hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}