Report reveals Trump purging White House at unprecedented levels
The Trump administration has the highest rate of turnover among White House staff in decades as 40 percent of staff members working at the White House since a year ago have left for other jobs, according to an annual report by US Congress.
The Monday report said the staff turnover in President Donald Trump’s White House exceeds that of the office of all former US presidents, providing a snapshot of the chaos among Trump's closest subordinates.
The next-highest turnover rate for an administration’s first year was Ronald Reagan’s, with 17% of senior aides leaving their posts in 1981.
Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton saw much lower turnovers during their first year in office—9%, 6%, and 11%, respectively.
In 2017, the turnover rate of the entire U.S workforce was 3.6% on average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Trump sacked a number of his staff members months into office while others were forced to resign. Reports say the US president is consulting with advisers on a replacement for chief of staff John Kelly, who is nearing a year in the job.
Purge highest among senior posts
Fifty-six percent of the highest-ranking people in Trump's White House named in last year's payroll report have since left or have announced they will soon leave, including chief of staff Reince Priebus, top economic adviser Gary Cohn, deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn and spokesman Sean Spicer, according to The New York Times.
Comparable reports from Obama's White House showed 13 percent of 24 top commissioned staffers left in the same period. The report, showing names, titles and salaries, is required by Congress each year by July 1.
More chaos is expected to come as Trump has been consulting with some advisers on a replacement for current chief of staff John Kelly, who is nearing a year in the job.
All this is while the report is a snapshot of the realities of a turbulent president and his White House, and does not show turnover between annual reports. Nor does it show changes in the vice president's office and some other White House departments.
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