What to expect in the first 100 days

[Bengalzona]

A lot of people have been scratching their heads about people Trump is fingering (not literally.... heh, heh, heh) to head departments and agencies in his administration. They either seem to have little to no experience with that field (Dr. Ben Carson, etc.) or they seem to be anti the agency they are being considered to lead (Scott Pruitt, etc.). And forget about "draining the swamp". These people primarily seem to be Washington GOP insiders.

I've even postulated that this move was to undermine agencies from within. There maybe something to that. But I heard an interesting analysis on NPR speculating about why Trump was selecting these particular people. The reason they believe he is making these picks is to insulate the administration from Congress. When the Trump Administration wants to introduce a new policy, it will be these people taking it to Congress and trying to sell it. For that, he needs insiders. If the package the administration wants to sell is something that he thinks will be fought against by Congress (for example, upholding some EPA regs that Congress wants to get rid of), who better to sell it to Congress than someone who is known to be pretty anti-EPA to begin with?

If that is the case, Trump may be far shrewder than many (including many GOPers) have given him credit for.