Jared Kushner: SWAT Team Leader!
File this under the ongoing militarization of Washington, DC and our American moment: Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, is to lead a SWAT team to introduce best practices from business into government. Not an efficiency team or innovation team or idea team. A SWAT team. As in special weapons and tactics. Will Kushner carry an M-16 or sniper rifle while he remakes government in the image of business? The SWAT rhetoric is both juvenile and absurd.
As Dirty Harry said, "A man's got to know his limitations." Kushner, whose record apparently wasn't quite good enough to get into Harvard without Daddy's money (to the tune of $2.5 million), doesn't strike me as SWAT material. And I don't think he knows his limitations ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-taps-kushner-to-lead-a-swat-team-to-fix-government-with-business-ideas/2017/03/26/9714a8b6-1254-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html