Headline Roundup December 9, 2018
John Kelly Out As Chief Of Staff
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Wall Street Journal (News)
White House chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job “toward the end of the year,” President Trump said Saturday, part of a broad shake-up as the White House girds for a re-election bid and clashes with congressional Democrats.
President Trump said on Saturday that his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, would step down by the end of the year, the latest move in a long-planned staff shake-up as the president heads into the 2020 campaign facing growing peril from the special counsel and newly empowered Democrats.
Nick Ayers, in talks with President Donald Trump to become his new White House chief of staff, is a 36-year-old political whiz-kid who could help with the looming re-election campaign, but critics question whether he has the grit needed to keep Trump and an often chaotic administration under control.
