Michael Richard Pence is an American politician who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017,and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.
Jared Corey Kushner is an American businessman,investor,and former government official. He is the son-in-law of former president Donald Trump through his marriage to Ivanka Trump,and served as a senior advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2021. He was also Director of the Office of American Innovation.
Paul Scott Teller is the executive director of Advancing American Freedom in Washington DC,Mike Pence's advocacy organization. Teller previously served under President Donald Trump as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs,as well Director of Strategic Affairs for Vice President Mike Pence. Earlier,Teller had been chief of staff for Texas Senator Ted Cruz and executive director of the United States House of Representatives Republican Study Committee.
Stephen Michael Hahn is an American physician who served as the commissioner of food and drugs from 2019 to 2021. Before becoming commissioner,he was an oncologist serving as chief medical executive of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2021,he became chief medical officer at Flagship Pioneering,the venture capital firm that launched Moderna.
The National Space Council is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States created in 1989 during the George H. W. Bush administration,disbanded in 1993,and reestablished in June 2017 by the Donald Trump administration. It is a modified version of the earlier National Aeronautics and Space Council (1958–1973).
Planning for the presidential transition of Donald Trump,led by then vice president-elect,former governor Mike Pence of Indiana,began before Donald Trump won the United States presidential election on November 8,2016,and became the president-elect. Trump was formally elected by the Electoral College on December 19,2016. The transition was formerly led by Chris Christie until he and a number of his supporters were replaced or demoted on November 11. The results were certified by a joint session of Congress on January 6,2017,and the transition ended when Trump was inaugurated at noon EST on January 20,2017.
Joshua Matthew Pitcock is an American political operative who served as chief of staff to Mike Pence,the Vice President of the United States,from January 2017 to July 2017. Pitcock has also been Assistant to the President. He was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team.
James W. Carroll Jr. is an American attorney and government appointee,who served as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Trump Administration from February 9,2018 until January 20,2021.
Thomas Ulrich Brechbuhl is a Swiss-American businessman and former government official,having held the position of Counselor of the United States Department of State from May 1,2018,to January 20,2021. He was appointed by and reported to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,and replaced Maliz E. Beams. Along with the role of Counselor,he served as the Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the Department of State from March to September 2020.
Alyssa Farah Griffin is an American political strategist and television personality. She was the White House Director of Strategic Communications and Assistant to the President in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump. She is a co-host of the daytime talk show The View and also appears on CNN as a political commentator.
Katie Rose Miller is an American political advisor who served as the communications director for the Vice President of the United States Mike Pence from 2020 to 2021. She was previously his press secretary from 2019 to 2020.
The core White House staff appointments,and most Executive Office of the President officials generally,are not required to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate,with a handful of exceptions. There are about 4,000 positions in the Executive Office of the President.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Donald Trump during the first quarter of 2020,from January 1 to March 31,2020. To navigate quarters,see timeline of the Donald Trump presidency.
The 2020 Oval Office address,officially titled On the Coronavirus Pandemic,was the second televised,prime-time Oval Office address during the presidency of Donald Trump,delivered on March 11,2020 at 9:01PM EDT. It was released during the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 stock market crash.
The White House Coronavirus Task Force was the United States Department of State task force during the Trump administration,the goal of the Task Force was to coordinate and oversee the administration's efforts to monitor,prevent,contain,and mitigate the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Also referred to as the President's Coronavirus Task Force,it was established on January 29,2020,with Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar as chair. On February 26,2020,U.S. vice president Mike Pence was named to chair the task force,and Deborah Birx was named the response coordinator.
The Donald Trump administration communicated in various ways during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States,including via social media,interviews,and press conferences with the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Opinion polling conducted in mid-April 2020 indicated that less than half of Americans trusted health information provided by Trump and that they were more inclined to trust local government officials,state government officials,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci.
Olivia Troye is an American national security official who worked on national security and homeland security issues at the National Counterterrorism Center,the United States Department of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence,and the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis. She went on to work in the Office of the Vice President of the United States as the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence and also served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force as Pence's lead staffer on the Task Force. She resigned from the White House in August 2020.
The White House COVID-19 outbreak was a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infections that began in September 2020 and ended in January 2021 that spread among people,including many U.S. government officials,who were in close contact during the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington,D.C. Numerous high-profile individuals were infected,including then President Donald Trump,who was hospitalized for three days. At least 48 White House staff members or associates,closely working with White House personnel,tested positive for the virus. The White House resisted efforts to engage in contact tracing,leaving it unclear how many people were infected in total and what the origins of the spread were.
The following article is a broad timeline of the course of events surrounding the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6,2021,by rioters supporting United States President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Pro-Trump rioters stormed the United States Capitol after assembling on the Ellipse of the Capitol complex for a rally headlined as the "Save America March".
