Trump Disbands White House Advisory Councils

Ben Kennedy
08-16-2017

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Washington – President Trump is ending two White House advisory councils staffed by corporate chief executives.

Trump tweeted "rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!"

This move by the commander-in-chief is after Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison resigned from the panel over comments about racism made by Trump. Morrison is the seventh person this week to resign from a pair of major advisory panels in the wake of the president's controversial remarks about last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Ben
Kennedy

Ben Kennedy is an Emmy Award-winning White House correspondent for CBN News in Washington, D.C. He has more than a decade of reporting experience covering breaking news nationwide. He's traveled cross country covering the President and scored exclusive interviews with lawmakers and White House officials. Kennedy spent seven years reporting for WPLG, the ABC affiliate in Miami, Florida. While there he reported live from Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Matthew hit the island. He was the first journalist to interview Diana Nyad moments after her historic swim from Cuba to Key West. He reported
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