Overview
- LA28 quietly updated its website to list new directors that include former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus.
- Other additions with ties to the president include GOP donor Diane Hendricks, Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont, and banker Ken Moelis, along with Denita Willoughby and Maria Hummer-Tuttle.
- The organizing committee did not explain why the board was expanded or how the new members were chosen.
- Trump signed an August executive order creating and chairing a federal task force for the Los Angeles Games focused on security, transportation coordination, and streamlined visas.
- Chair Casey Wasserman welcomed the new members as Muffy Davis exited the board, and the USOPC recently updated policy language consistent with the president’s women’s‑sports executive order.