DemDaily: The Departed
April 8, 2019
On Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned, becoming the tenth member of President Trump's Cabinet to leave the administration.
Then today, in a further purge of the nation's second-largest national security agency, the head of the Secret Service, Randolph "Tex" Alles, was fired, adding to the list of over 100 high-level White House or senior staff departures.
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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)
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Position
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Name
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Resigned, Forced Out
or Fired
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Date
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| 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 | Michael 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 |
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Secretary of Health and Human Services
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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/ Forced Out | July, 2018 |
| White House Counsel | Donald McGhan | Resigned | August, 2018 |
| U.N. Ambassador | Nikki Haley | Resigned | October, 2018 |
| Attorney General | Jeff Sessions | Fired | November, 2018 |
| White House Chief of Staff | John Kelly | Resigned | December, 2018 |
| Chief of Staff to the Vice President | Nick Ayers | Resigned | December, 2018 |
| Secretary of the Interior | Ryan Zinke | Resigned/ Forced Out | December, 2018 |
| Secretary of Defense | James Mattis | Resigned | December, 2018 |
| Principal Deputy Press Secretary | Raj Shaw | Resigned | January, 2019 |
| Air Force Secretary | Heather Wilson | Resigned | March, 2019 |
| Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications | Bill Shine | Resigned | March, 2019 |
| Administrator of Small Business Administration | Linda McMahon | Resigned | March, 2019 |
| Department of Homeland Security Secretary | Kirstjen Nielsen | Resigned/ Forced Out | April, 2019 |
| US Secret Service Director | Randolph "Tex" Alles | Fired | April, 2019 |
