The Biden administration is releasing a “roadmap” for maintaining government defenses against infectious diseases, just as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to dismantle some of them.

Trump’s goal with this and other White House political shop hires, GOP sources tell The Dispatch, is to exert total control over the party ahead of the midterm elections (typically unkind to presidents in their second terms)—and to look ahead to 2028 and the Republican Party’s future.

As Georgia governor, he was a pioneer in efforts to attract foreign investment and promote exports, setting the stage for how U.S. states would help shape the global economy.