President Trump’s turbulent first year in the White House has an earned him a dubious honor. His administration experienced the highest amount of staff turnover seen in four decades.
According to the New York Post, “President Trump has seen a 34 percent turnover rate of senior aides leaving the White House… The analysis shows that 21 of the 61 Trump senior officials tracked have either resigned, been fired or reassigned.”
34 percent. It’s a staggering number. Previous administration’s rarely went about 20.
“Not only is the percentage double, the seniority of people leaving is extraordinarily high,” said Kathryn Dunn-Tempas of the Brookings Institution. The group analyzed 40 years worth of White House staff data.
“That’s unprecedented to me. The first year always seems to have some missteps on staffing, often because the skills that worked well running a campaign don’t always align with what it takes to run a government… In this case, it’s a president with no experience in government and people around him who also had no experience.”
The mass firings don’t reflect well upon the administration, but they also don’t spell disaster. The White House is doing better now than it has for years. The president’s agenda is taking shape.
“Is it a mistake to have to fire people? You’re asking, did he make a mistake in hiring them in the first place? You have to be more specific about people,” a senior administration official told Politico.
“I know we love to learn the more generic points of palace intrigue than the finer points of policy sometimes, but we have a really good team here. And we have a team that is very well managed by the chief of staff.”
(Souce: New York Post)