taking steps to streamline the flow of communication to the president’s

desk. Kelly has put in place have resulted in a more streamlined, functional government,
administration officials said.

in the first six months of the Trump administration, the President’s senior
aides enjoyed wide discretion on who they could meet, what issues they
could tackle and when they could bring their thoughts to the President.
 Jared Kushner, and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, who both work in the West Wing, have
also frustrated their colleagues for months by going directly to the president on specific
issues. He told them that Oval Office access to Trump, which was once nearly universal to
people coming through the West Wing, would be strictly limited to appointments only.

Among the clearest changes since Kelly’s arrival is a more careful review of
information, from statements of fact to news reports, before it goes to the
President’s desk, a White House official said. News articles and policy
proposals will first be run through Kelly, in part to reduce the risk of
erroneous material appearing on the presidential Twitter feed.
Kelly is also cracking down on what the White House official calls “paper” —
unsolicited policy ideas that have made it to the President’s desk, and
sometimes into his public statements, without serious review by his top-
level staff.
. “Gen Kelly is instilling processes to ensure that the president has
the information and analysis he needs to make decisions General is asserting
control over exactly what information the president sees.

how the president receives information, how he makes decisions, how meetings with him are
scheduled, and how speeches are scheduled and written.