Mick Mulvaney Is Out as Trump's White House Chief of Staff
The Trump administration may be actively fumbling an international crisis, but not even that can calm its never-ending personnel churn. So, in a Friday evening news dump, the president announced that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was out, to be replaced by his fellow House Freedom Caucus co-founder, North Carolina representative Mark Meadows.
Meadows, who announced late last year that he would not be seeking reelection to the House, has long been one of Trump's staunchest allies on Capitol Hill. He'll become the fourth chief of staff of the first 38 months of Trump's presidency. No president has ever had as many people fill the role during such a short time, and it's part of a broader pattern of record-breaking staff turnover in the Trump White House. According to data from the Brookings Institute, as of earlier this month, total turnover among the president's top staffers was 82 percent.
....I want to thank Acting Chief Mick Mulvaney for having served the Administration so well. He will become the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2020
Trump gave Mulvaney a new job far from the White House, naming him special envoy for Northern Ireland. The role has been vacant since the beginning of Trump's presidency. It's been long reported that Mulvaney, who also served as budget director while acting as chief of staff, had fallen out of Trump's favor and was not long for his jobs. The speculation intensified based on an especially Trumpian measuring stick—the seating arrangements at Stephen Miller's wedding. Meadows and his wife were reportedly seated at the president's table, while Mulvaney was banished to sit alongside less significant figures.
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