The difference between Jack Lew and Bill Daley
By Ezra Klein,
WashPost
Published: January 9
Ron Sachs VIA BLOOMBERG — Jacob "Jack" Lew has been the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget since November.
President Obama announced Monday that Bill Daley is out as White House chief of staff and Jack Lew is in. Lew, you might remember, is serving as director of the Office of Management and Budget — a position he held in the Clinton administration, too. He also served as number two in the State Department under Hillary Clinton, as a senior policy adviser to ex-speaker Tip O’Neill, and as an executive at Citigroup.
The changeover is simple enough to explain: Lew is well-liked both inside the administration and in Congress. Daley, after about a year in the job, isn’t.
Inside the administration, many look back with regret at the decision to send Lew to State and Larry Summers to lead the National Economics Council. In some early versions of the organization chart, Lew would have taken the NEC job and, some believe, run a calmer, more collaborative economic process.
In Congress, Lew’s stock is unusually high. He has emerged as one of the members of the Obama administration Republicans prefer working with. Earlier this year, Ben Smith, then at Politico, profiled Lew under the headline: “Lew: A liberal GOP says it trusts.” The piece included an admiring comment from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
(More here.)
WashPost
Published: January 9
President Obama announced Monday that Bill Daley is out as White House chief of staff and Jack Lew is in. Lew, you might remember, is serving as director of the Office of Management and Budget — a position he held in the Clinton administration, too. He also served as number two in the State Department under Hillary Clinton, as a senior policy adviser to ex-speaker Tip O’Neill, and as an executive at Citigroup.
The changeover is simple enough to explain: Lew is well-liked both inside the administration and in Congress. Daley, after about a year in the job, isn’t.
Inside the administration, many look back with regret at the decision to send Lew to State and Larry Summers to lead the National Economics Council. In some early versions of the organization chart, Lew would have taken the NEC job and, some believe, run a calmer, more collaborative economic process.
In Congress, Lew’s stock is unusually high. He has emerged as one of the members of the Obama administration Republicans prefer working with. Earlier this year, Ben Smith, then at Politico, profiled Lew under the headline: “Lew: A liberal GOP says it trusts.” The piece included an admiring comment from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
(More here.)
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