Within the White House factional battles between the forces of Steve Bannon against those of Jared Kushner, Powell was seen as aligned with the relative moderates, those being Kushner, Ivanka, and fellow Goldman Sachs figure Gary Cohn,[REF][REF][REF] with Cohn as well as Kushner being a faction leader [REF].
In April 2017 the New York Times labeled Powell a "rising star" in the national security establishment,[REF] an appellation echoed by Vogue magazine,[REF] while the Associated Press wrote that "Dina Powell has quietly established herself as a White House power."[REF]