White House communications director Bill Shine will be part of the West Wing delegation traveling to Helsinki next week to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin — a sign of the new power center he will occupy in the White House.

The high-stakes summit arrives at a moment of transition in the West Wing, with new blood like Shine on its way in, while other senior aides, like chief of staff John Kelly, are expected to be on their way out imminently. The staffers who will fly to the summit with the president include people on both sides of that ever-revolving door, according to a copy of the manifest obtained by POLITICO. The manifest specifically lists people scheduled to join Trump for the July 16 summit, but they are also expected to travel with the president for his other stops in Europe.


Among others aboard Air Force One for the trip, along with Shine and Kelly: deputy chief of staff Zach Fuentes; national security adviser John Bolton and his chief of staff, Fred Fleitz; policy adviser Stephen Miller; social media director Dan Scavino; press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders; and first lady Melania Trump and her staffers Lindsay Reynolds and Stephanie Grisham.

Son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump, who have played prominent roles on the president's foreign trips in the past, are not traveling with Trump to Helsinki.

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Trump is planning to attend a one-on-one meeting with Putin, followed by an extended bilateral meeting and then a working lunch, attended by senior U.S. and Russian officials.

A White House spokesman declined to comment.