President-elect Donald Trump is meeting Thursday with a former Homeland Security adviser and an attorney who specializes in mergers and acquisitions at his resort in Florida.
Transition spokesman Jason Miller told reporters that Trump will start his day by receiving the presidential daily briefing, and then he will meet with Tom Bossert, former deputy Homeland Security adviser to President George W. Bush. Bossert is currently a cyber fellow at the Atlantic Council.
{mosads}Following that, the president-elect will meet with Jay Clayton, a partner at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where he works on “public and private mergers and acquisitions, capital markets offerings and regulatory proceedings.”
Trump will continue to stay at his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, where he will hold “numerous meetings to discuss the administration” and celebrate Christmas.
Next week, Trump will meet with Elsa Murano, a former president at Texas A&M University who is being considered for Agriculture secretary.
“She comes very highly recommended,” Miller said on the Thursday call. “Her track record of running a major university really speaks for itself.”
News of Trump’s meeting with Murano comes as Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who was also on the shortlist to lead the Agriculture Department, told a local North Dakota outlet on Thursday that she’ll “likely” remain in the Senate.