“Have we used sticks so far? … I hadn’t noticed,” White House deputy chief of staff James Blair said with a wry grin, explaining the Trump administration’s carrot-and-stick approach to pursuing its goals.
In an interview with Politico, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for legislative, political, and public affairs discussed getting the president’s MAGA agenda through Congress.
“The president and the vice president, the whole team is pretty aware of the various levers that can be pulled to move the agenda along, and I think we are not bashful—and will not be bashful—about pulling those levers. And fortunately, we have a president who does it himself,” Blair explained to Rachael Bade, Capitol bureau chief for Politico.
Blair is a finance graduate from Florida State University, and his early political career was as a top aide for…
