Andy Puzder’s Confirmation Could Be in Peril

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The political world is abuzz about the possibility Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, is on the outs with Donald Trump. That’s due to a not-so-deep reading of some comments by Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax Media and a donor and friend to Trump, on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday.

“The White House is showing not the amount of order that we need to see. I think there’s a lot of weakness coming out of the chief of staff. I think Reince Priebus, good guy, well intentioned, but he clearly doesn’t know how the federal agencies work,” Ruddy told host Brian Stelter. “He doesn’t have a really good system. He doesn’t know how the communications flow.

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