川普女婿主導白宮“美國創新辦公室”工作

U.S. President Donald Trump is putting his son-in-law in charge of an effort to make the federal government run more like an efficient business.

Jared Kushner, a second-generation real estate investor who is married to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, is to lead the new White House Office of American Innovation.

At Monday's daily White House briefing, the press secretary brushed off questions about whether the 36-year-old Kushner, a newcomer to government, is qualified to lead the transformation.

Other weighty matters already are assigned to Kushner, including the Middle East peace process and being his father-in-law’s lead advisor on countries such as China and Mexico.

The office is to be staffed with former business executives operating out of the West Wing, according to White House officials.

Two White House senior aides are set to be the office’s key personnel -- a former Microsoft and General Motors executive, Chris Liddell, and real estate developer Reed Cordish, whose family is close to the Trumps.

Also on the team are National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who is a former Goldman Sachs executive, and Dina Habib Powell, recently named as deputy national security advisor. She is also a senior counselor to the president.

The Obama White House launched a similar, but more narrowly-focused, initiative in 2008.美國總統川普讓他的女婿負責將聯邦政府轉型爲一個有效率的企業。

與川普的女兒伊萬卡結婚的第二代房地產投資商賈裏德·庫什納將領導白宮新成立的“美國創新辦公室”。

在星期一的白宮例行簡報會上，新聞祕書沒有理會媒體對36歲的庫什納，一名政府管理的新人，是否有資格領導轉型的問題所提出的質疑。

庫什納已經在負責的其他重要事項包括中東和平進程，以及擔任他的岳父在中國和墨西哥等國家問題上的重要顧問。

白宮官員說，新辦公室的成員將包括以前的商業公司主管，他們將在西廳工作。

兩位白宮高級助手將成爲辦公室的主要人員，他們分別是前微軟公司和通用汽車公司執行長克里斯·利德爾，以及房地產開發商雷德·科迪什，他的家庭與川普一家交往密切。

此外，該團隊還有國家經濟委員會主任加里·科恩，他是前高盛銀行的高管，以及最近被任命爲國家安全顧問的迪娜·哈比卜·鮑威爾。她也是總統的資深顧問。

奧巴馬政府在2008年推出過類似但影響面較小的舉措。