Conway: Trump not worried about Obama’s last-minute actions

President-elect Donald Trump’s top adviser, Kellyanne Conway, on Thursday said the Trump administration is not concerned about a “flurry” of President Obama’s last-minute actions and executive orders.

Conway told Fox News’s Lou Dobbs that Trump has been balancing his role as the president-elect while still being respectful of the current administration in the White House.

“He has really threaded the needle, President-elect Trump has, between being the next president and being respectful that we still have a president. So he stopped short of making new policy … but at the same time he is not waiting until Jan. 20 to get all the levers in motion,” she said.

{mosads}When Dobbs asked Conway if the president-elect is bothered by Obama’s last-minute policies, such as ending the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) that was used to track mostly Arab men after 9/11, Conway replied, “Not particularly.”

“I think from a … nonsubstantive perspective, the president and his closest advisers have been very helpful to the president-elect and his close advisers,” she said.

“But that aside, these men differ ideologically and they differ substantively, and in some ways the election … of Donald J. Trump was a rebuke and a rejection of many of the policies that we’ve had over the last four to eight years,” she said.

Conway argued that last-minute policy decisions are often a president’s way of trying to “make up for the unfinished business” of their administrations.