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List of Trump administration dismissals and resignations

List of Trump administration dismissals and resignations

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Many political appointees of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, resigned or were dismissed. Multiple publications have called attention to the record-setting turnover rate in the first year of the Trump Administration.[1][2][3] Several Trump appointees, including National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price have had the shortest service tenures in the history of their respective offices.[lower-alpha 1]

Trump justified the instability, saying: "We have acting people. The reason they are acting is because I'm seeing how I like them, and I'm liking a lot of them very, very much. There are people who have done a bad job, and I let them go. If you call that turmoil, I don't call that turmoil. I say that is being smart. That's what we do."[4]

For comprehensiveness, the list below includes, in addition to dismissals and resignations, routine job changes such as promotions (e.g., Gina Haspel from CIA Deputy Director to Director), officials moving to a comparable position (e.g., John F. Kelly from Secretary of Homeland Security to Chief of Staff), and acting or temporary officials being replaced by permanent ones. The list does not include many lower-level positions, however, such as that of executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Matthew Doherty, whom Trump dismissed in November 2019,[5] without a replacement to lead the council that was created in 1987. But some less prominent officials are listed because their departure was newsworthy.

Officials who resigned in the aftermath of the 2021 United States Capitol attack, well into the then-underway presidential transition of Trump's successor Joe Biden, when their term would have ended soon anyway, are also listed on this page.

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  Denotes appointees serving in an acting capacity.

  Denotes appointees to an office which has since been abolished

Executive Office of the President

Main article: Executive appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders 2

Office of the Vice President

Main article: Executive appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Agriculture

Main article: Department of Agriculture appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Commerce

Main article: Department of Commerce appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Defense

Main article: Department of Defense appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Education

Main article: Department of Education appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Energy

Main article: Department of Energy appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Health and Human Services

Main article: Department of Health and Human Services appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Homeland Security

Main article: Department of Homeland Security appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Main article: Department of Housing and Urban Development appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of the Interior

Main article: Department of the Interior appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Justice

Main article: Department of Justice appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Labor

Main article: Department of Labor appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of State

Main article: Department of State appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Transportation

Main article: Department of Transportation appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of the Treasury

Main article: Department of the Treasury appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Veterans Affairs

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Intelligence community

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Independent agencies

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Banks

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In the aftermath of the 2021 Capitol attack

Dozens of Trump administration officeholders resigned in reaction to the Capitol storming, even though their terms in office would expire fourteen days later with the inauguration of President Biden. Some senior officials, however, decided against resigning in order to ensure an "orderly transition of power" to the incoming Biden administration, out of concern that Trump would replace them with loyalist lower-level staffers who they feared could carry out illegal orders given by him.[51]

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Three members of the National Security Council resigned prematurely.

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Five senior officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) resigned in protest.

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See also

Notes

  1. Excluding interim appointments.
  2. Coats or Gordon may be the "senior national security official" who told Jake Tapper: "Everyone at this point ignores what the president says and just does their job. The American people should take some measure of confidence in that."

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