President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he has picked David Warrington to serve as his White House counsel and that Bill McGinley, whom Trump had previously tapped for the role, will instead serve as counsel to the Department of Government Efficiency.

The shake-up is a sign that the new administration may see the same chaos and infighting that so often plagued President-elect Donald J. Trump’s first term in office.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday reversed course and selected David Warrington as his top White House lawyer, reassigning his previous choice, William McGinley, to a role working with Elon Musk's outside government efficiency group.

President-elect Donald Trump has named his White House counsel — for a second time since his Nov. 5 election victory. On Nov. 12, Trump named William Joseph McGinley as White House counsel, but on Wednesday,

President-elect Trump on Wednesday announced a change in his choice to serve as White House counsel in his upcoming administration, tapping his top campaign lawyer, David Warrington, for the job. Trump in a statement said Warrington would serve as the top attorney in the White House and as assistant to the president.