More than a third of trump's white house has left in his first year
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A year into his first term, President Trump is on his second White House chief of staff, second national security adviser, third deputy national security adviser, second press secretary,
fifth communications director, and second HHS secretary, and that doesn't count all the vacancies. The White House budget director, Mick Mulvaney, is also in charge of the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, and John DeStefano oversees three White House offices: personnel, public liaison, and political affairs. This isn't normal, says Peter Baker at _The New
York Times_. "We have vacancies on top of vacancies," Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, who has studied White House turnover at the Brookings Institution, tells the _Times_. In fact, more than
a third of Trump's hires have left, and "some administration officials privately spend much of their time trying to figure out how to leave without looking disloyal or provoking an
easily angered president," the _Times_ reports: The fear of losing yet another senior aide is one of the reasons the White House was reluctant to push out staff secretary Rob Porter,
despite being informed he would not be granted security clearance due to domestic violence accusations, Baker reports. White House jobs are usually highly sought-after, he adds, but
"Republican operatives said they worry not only about the pressure-cooker, soap-opera atmosphere and the danger of being drawn into the special counsel investigation of Russia's
election interference but also about hurting their careers after the White House." You can read more at _The New York Times_. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the
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