Hope Hicks is moving into the White House communications director hot seat, replacing ousted Wall Street player Anthony Scaramucci, who sat in that for 10 days.
She’s a member of the Trump family inner circle, serving as spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Trump Organization.
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Hope HicksThe 28-year-old former actor and model has PR firm experience, earned at Hiltzick Strategies in New York while working with First Daughter Ivanka Trump on her fashion line.
The New York Times reports that Hicks is to serve on an interim basis and help Trump search for a permanent communications.
New White House chief of staff John Kelly fired Scaramucci last month in the wake of fallout from his disastrous phone interview with The New Yorker.
Former press secretary Sean Spicer assumed communications director duties after GOP strategist Mike Dubke was canned in May.
Erik Hotmire has rejoined the Securities and Exchange Commission as chief external affairs officer and director of the Office of Public Affairs.
California seeks a firm to handle a $3.5M marketing/ad program to promote awareness of, and increase sign-ups in, its job corps program. 
The National Highway Safety Administration has awarded its public education to Stratacomm following a competitive re-compete process.
Congress wants the FTC to probe whether TikTok violated child privacy laws when it launched a last-ditch lobbying blitz to defeat the bill requiring its owner, ByteDance, to divest it.
Jeffrey Nesbit, who served as communications director for former vice president Dan Quayle, is named assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
