West Wing Reads: Wilbur Ross, Ivanka Trump Introduce Workforce Advisory Board

Wilbur Ross, Ivanka Trump Introduce Workforce Advisory Board “The chief executives of Apple Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Walmart Inc., are among 25 prominent Americans who will shape Trump administration efforts to develop job training programs to meet the changing demands of U.S. employers,” Margaret Talev reports for Bloomberg. “The creation of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, announced by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump on Wednesday, will work with the National Council for the American Worker established last July by an executive order.” Click here to read more. “President Donald Trump is headed to Miami on Monday to speak about the ongoing turmoil in Venezuela, a move that could embolden interim president Juan Guaidó and put further pressure on Nicolás Maduro to flee the country,” David Smiley and Franco Ordoñez reports for the Miami Herald. “Trump is scheduled to speak at Florida International University, where he’ll reaffirm his support for Guaidó and, according to the White House, hammer socialism as a scourge.” In the Washington Examiner, Eddie Scarry writes that what President Trump said is true—he really did start building more border wall in Texas. “The project funds six miles-worth of concrete and steel barrier of the sort that [border] agents told me in January is immensely successful in deterring illegal border crossings. The wall will be supplemented by ‘detection technology, lighting, video surveillance, and an all-weather patrol road parallel’ to the barrier, according to a release sent out by the CBP in November.” “I agree with the Trump administration’s free market approach” to healthcare, Dr. Marc Siegel writes in The Hill. "My patients want to know what their medicines cost, even if their insurance ends up covering it. In fact it is ‘price opacity’ that has enabled health costs to soar, while patients are blinded . . . The Trump administration and HHS should be applauded for their efforts to extend and expand price transparency."