Hi everybody. I'm Brittany Lewis, a breaking news reporter here at Forbes.

Joining me now is my Forbes colleague, staff writer Zach Everson.

Zach, thanks so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Brittany.

This month, Donald Trump will officially be reentering the White House and you have some news

on someone he's picking for a key role in his

administration. This is your headline that Trump picked a business associate of mega donor

Timothy Mellon to lead the Federal Railroad Administration. So first of all, the person that we're

talking about is David Fink. So to start off the conversation, who is he? So Fink is a fifth

generation railroader.

He was Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Railroad Administration, which is an agency

within the Department of Transportation responsible for rail safety and infrastructure

funding.

And he has worked with Mellon going back decades.

And before he worked with Mellon, his father, who's also named David Fink, also worked

with Mellon.

So talk to us about how that partnership came to be and what's the relationship with the

patriarch, David Fink, to Timothy Mellon?

Sure.

So the elder Fink, Mellon met the elder Fink back in the 70s, according to Mellon wrote in his memoir.

At the time, Fink was a manager at the Penn Central Railroad, and Mellon was kind of in

between jobs, which is something you can do when you're in heir to that fortune.

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