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Mayo Clinic CEO John Noseworthy, left, talks with Partners HealthCare CEO and President Dr. David Torchiana, as they arrive at Mar-a-Lago for meetings with President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO Dr. Paul Rothman, left, and Carlyle Group co-founder and co-CEO David Rubenstein arrive at Mar-a-Lago for meetings with President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, file photo, workers move cargo into position inside a new AirBridgeCargo Boeing 787-8 freighter airplane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, in SeaTac, Wash., after it was flown in from the manufacturing plant in nearby Everett, Wash. Companies that make construction equipment, engines and aircraft made large gains in 2016 as the U.S. economy picked up steam. Investors bet that the election of Trump, and a Republican Congress that could approve his spending proposals, will lead to more spending on construction, manufacturing, and transportation. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2004 file photo, the military creates a perimeter at a government-subsidized food market in Caracas, Venezuela. The late President Hugo Chavez began handing the military control over food, and the wider economy, following opposition attempts to overthrow him in 2002. (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero, File)
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FILE - In this April 26, 2016 file photo, Washington State Auditor Troy Kelley leaves the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash. The federal jury trial against Kelley on charges that he illegally pocketed millions of dollars in fees while running a real estate services business before he took office was among the top news stories in Washington state in 2016. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Then-President-elect Donald Trump introduces retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as his appointed secretary of defense while speaking to supporters during a rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on Dec. 6, 2016. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania may bring back a certain fiscal elegance to the White House, the likes of which might not have been seen since the days of former wealthy chief executives Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy. (Associated Press)
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A day after strong winter winds raked the Twin Cities a number of panels were discovered to have fallen from the new US Bank Stadium on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. Minneapolis, Minn. (Mark Vancleave/Star Tribune via AP)
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A day after strong winter winds raked the Twin Cities a number of panels were discovered to have fallen from the new US Bank Stadium on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. Minneapolis, Minn. (Mark Vancleave/Star Tribune via AP)
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A day after strong winter winds raked the Twin Cities a number of panels were discovered to have fallen from the new US Bank Stadium on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. Minneapolis, Minn. (Mark Vancleave/Star Tribune via AP)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, Matt Ubell adds grain to feed as she prepares to feed cattle on his farm near Wheaton, Kan. Ubell is one of many farmers taking out government agriculture loans to make ends meet in a turbulent farm economy. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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FILE - This Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, file photo shows the Wall Street entrance of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks moved modestly higher in early trading Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, as U.S. markets reopened following the holiday weekend. Materials and energy companies were among the biggest gainers, while utilities and real estate stocks headed lower. A key gauge of housing values showed U.S. home prices increased again in October. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches the opening ceremony of natural gas pipeline from Russia to Crimea during a live video link from the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, the supermoon rises over a logo for AVIC, or Aviation Industry Corp, a state owned enterprise involved in China's manned space mission in Beijing. China vowed Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016 to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Minimum Wage Trap Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on economic growth by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Terror (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)
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"The world was gloomy before I won - there was no hope. Now the market is up nearly 10% and Christmas spending is over a trillion dollars!" President-elect Donald Trump tweeted. (Associated Press)
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Scott Lockwood, left, executive vice president of the engineering firm of Anderson, Eckstein & Westrick, speaks about developments of a sinkhole at a public meeting at Fraser City Hall in Fraser, Mich. on Dec. 26, 2016. The suburban Detroit community has declared a state of emergency after a sinkhole began forming in one of its neighborhoods. (Robin Buckson/Detroit News via AP)
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FILE - In this March 20, 2016 file photo, tourists ride in a classic American car past a balcony decorated with Cuban and U.S. flags in Havana, Cuba. Slow growth during a surge of interest in foreign investment and the greatest tourism boom in decades attests to both long-term systemic mismanagement and the depth of the crisis in other sectors, particularly aid from Venezuelan in the form of deeply subsidized oil. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
