DemDaily: The Departed
July 9, 2018
On Thursday EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt became the fifth Cabinet Secretary to leave the Trump Administration, adding to the list of over 75 high-level White House or senior staff departures.
Image: Los Angeles Times
To follow are the most notable of The Departed - by choice or by force, but always with controversy!
The White House Shake Up
(In order of departure)
|
Position
|
Name
|
Resigned, Forced Out
or Fired
|
Date
|
| US Deputy Attorney General and Acting AG | Sally Yates | Fired | January, 2017 |
| National Security Advisor | Michael Flynn | Resigned | February, 2017 |
| National Security Council, Senior Director, Western Hemisphere Affairs | Craig Deare | Fired | February, 2017 |
| US Attorney for the Southern District of New York | Preet Bharara | Fired | March, 2017 |
| Deputy White House Chief of Staff | Katie Walsh | Resigned | March, 2017 |
| White House Communications Director | Micael Dubke | Resigned | April, 2017 |
| FBI Director | James Comey | Fired | May, 2017 |
| Deputy National Security Advisor | K.T. McFarland | Reassigned/ Forced Out | May, 2017 |
| Office of Government Ethics Director | Walter Schaub | Resigned | July, 2017 |
| Press Secretary | Sean Spicer | Resigned | July, 2017 |
| National Security Council, Middle East Advisor | Derek Harvey | Fired | July, 2017 |
| Deputy Press Secretary | Michael Short | Resigned | July, 2017 |
| White House Chief of Staff | Reince Priebus | Resigned/ Forced Out | July, 2017 |
| White House Communications Director | Anthony Scaramucci | Fired | July, 2017 |
| Director of White House Office of Public Liaison | George Safakis | Resigned | August, 2017 |
| Chief Strategist | Steve Bannon | Resigned/ Forced Out | August, 2017 |
| Deputy Assistant to the President | Sebastian Gorka | Resigned/ Forced Out | August, 2017 |
| Director of Oval Office Operations | Keith Schiller | Resigned | September, 2017 |
|
Secretary of Health and Human Services
|
Tom Price | Resigned/ Forced Out | September, 2017 |
| Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy | Dina Powell | Resigned | December, 2017 |
| Director of Communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison | Omarosa Manigault Newman | Fired | December, 2017 |
| Chief of External Affairs for Corporation for National and Community Service | Carl Higbie | Resigned/ Forced Out | January, 2018 |
| Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Brenda Fitzgerald | Resigned/ Forced Out | January, 2018 |
| White House Staff Secretary | Rob Porter | Resigned/ Forced Out | February, 2018 |
| Associate Attorney General | Rachel Brand | Resigned | February, 2018 |
| White House Speech Writer | David Sorensen | Resigned/ Force Out | February, 2018 |
| Director of White House National Economic Council | Gary Cohn | Resigned | March, 2018 |
| President Trump's Personal Aide | John McEntee | Resigned/ Forced Out | March, 2018 |
| Deputy FBI Director and Acting Director | Andrew McCabe | Fired | March, 2018 |
| White House Deputy Chief of Staff | Rick Dearborn | Resigned | March, 2018 |
| National Security Advisor | Lt. General H.R. McMaster | Resigned | March, 2018 |
| Secretary of Veterans Affairs | David Shulkin | Fired | March, 2018 |
| White House Communications Director | Hope Hicks | Resigned | March, 2018 |
| Secretary of State | Rex Tillerson | Fired | March, 2018 |
| National Security Council Spokesman | Michael Anton | Resigned/ Forced Out | April, 2018 |
| Homeland Security Advisor | Thomas Bossert | Resigned/ Forced Out | April, 2018 |
| Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy | Nadia Schadlow | Resigned | April, 2018 |
| Deputy National Security Advisor | Major General Ricky Waddell | Resigned | April, 2018 |
| Deputy Chief of Staff | Joseph Hagin | Resigned | June, 2018 |
| EPA Administrator | Scott Pruitt | Resigned | July, 2018 |
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Sources: MSNBC, Business Insider, New York Times
