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O ne of former President Donald Trump’s loyal bureaucrats landed a new job as an executive coach, positioning her to share her leadership approach with C-suite officers and entrepreneurs worldwide. Emily Murphy, former head of the General Services Administration under Trump, joined leadership consultancy CEO Coaching International as a partner and coach, according to a press release issued last week. The company claims it works in 40 countries and 50 industries. Founding partner Mark Moses praised Murphy’s “extraordinary experience” and “impressive background and expertise.” That experience includes helping enable Trump’s Big Lie by refusing to authorize the Biden transition team and denying it access to government resources until three weeks after the election was called. Subscribe to Forbes' Checks & Imbalances newsletter for an in-depth look at the politicians, businesses and money sloshing around Washington, D.C. GSA also oversees the lease to the Trump …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Recent White House negotiations have hit a wall. Getty The partial shutdown of the U.S. government is a cautionary tale of negotiations gone wrong. From a business standpoint, there are career-shaping lessons to be learned. As a leader, you need to bring your ideas forward, even when facing a wall of opposition, and create a win-win for all involved. There are four important takeaways regarding the actions (and reactions) of the recent failed negotiations at the White House. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi had barely sat down, when President Donald Trump stood up and left. What went wrong in the Oval office? Setting politics to the side (and I'll leave it to you to take sides): what needs to change to stop the stalemate? Against the backdrop of the partial U.S. government shutdown, here are four takeaways on what's missing—and how to communicate a win-win outcome : 1. Bring It : "Neither side came into …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Normally, all leaders, even authoritarians, try to make sure that the trains run on time , or at least that the trains keep running . If government doesn’t function, or workers aren’t paid for doing their jobs, then even the leaders’ most faithful followers risk awakening from their complacency and examining their leaders’ aberrant behavior with brutal scrutiny. President Trump is now testing the outer limits of that leadership playbook by shutting down a quarter of the government—already the longest shut-down in American history—and threatening to continue it “ for months, even a year ,” if he doesn’t get $5.7 billion funding his 2000-mile wall along the Southern border. U.S. President Donald Trump Photographer: Carlos Barria/© 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP The shutdown is disrupting the lives of millions of citizens, including the mortgage industry, (which had enough political …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The current government shutdown emerged as follows: In 2016, Donald Trump was elected as U.S. president in 2016 in part on the basis of the fantasy that many of America’s problems are caused by hordes of illegal immigrants and could be solved by building “a big, beautiful, 2000-mile concrete wall along the Southern border,” paid for by Mexico. U.S. President Donald Trump and his border wall Photo Zach Gibson © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP Nevertheless, throughout 2017 and 2018, after Mexico had declined to pay for the wall, Trump signed successive budgets—put forward by Republican-controlled House and Senate—with no significant funding for his promised border wall. By early December 2018, discussions on the government budget were taking their usual course: Republicans were seeking more money for border patrol agents and necessary fences while Democrats were arguing for better …

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley defended calls to his Chinese counterpart during a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Milley objected to media portrayals of him either betraying his loyalty to the United States or stepping outside the prescribed chain of command because he believed former President Donald Trump might pose a risk. (RELATED: Gen. Milley Says Allegedly Secret Phone Calls With China Were ‘Perfectly Within’ His ‘Duties And Responsibilites’) WATCH: Milley gave his opening statement on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and as his time ran out, he asked for a brief extension in order to address some of the things he felt the media had gotten wrong. “Mr. Chairman, I have served this nation for 42 years. I spent years in combat, and I buried a lot of my troops who died while defending this country,” Milley said once he was given the go ahead. “My loyalty to this nation, its people, and the Constitution hasn’t changed …

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Former President Barack Obama said the migrant crisis playing out on the southern border is “heartbreaking” and declared the immigration system to be “dysfunctional” during an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday. Over 14,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, crossed the border earlier in September and set up camp under the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, amid a continued surge in crossings under President Joe Biden’s administration. Biden faced backlash after the administration began deporting some of the migrants, though later it was determined that many have been allowed to remain in the U.S. for the time being. Obama spoke to “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts about the former vice president’s response and he suggested the country is now at a crossroads on whether real change will be enacted. “As big-hearted as he is, nobody understands that better than Joe Biden,” Obama said. “And the question is now: Are we gonna get serious about dealing with this …

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