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More departures on horizon for struggling White House staff (40 year high)
More departures on horizon for struggling White House staff, AP, 1/6/18
WASHINGTON (AP) — Already setting turnover records, President Donald Trump's White House is bracing for even more staff departures and an increasing struggle to fill vacancies, shadowed by the unrelenting Russia probe, political squabbling and Trump's own low poll numbers.
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In Trump's first year, his administration's upper-level officials have had a turnover rate of 34 percent, much higher than any other in the past 40 years, according to an analysis by Kathryn Dunn-Tenpas, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The study found that 22 of the 64 senior officials she tracked have resigned, been fired or reassigned.
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The presidency with the next-highest first-year turnover rate was Ronald Reagan's, with 17 percent of senior aides leaving in 1981. And Trump's first-year rate is three times Bill Clinton's 11 percent and Barack Obama's 9 percent.
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More: https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-departures-horizon-struggling-white-house-staff-074043869.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — Already setting turnover records, President Donald Trump's White House is bracing for even more staff departures and an increasing struggle to fill vacancies, shadowed by the unrelenting Russia probe, political squabbling and Trump's own low poll numbers.
...
In Trump's first year, his administration's upper-level officials have had a turnover rate of 34 percent, much higher than any other in the past 40 years, according to an analysis by Kathryn Dunn-Tenpas, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The study found that 22 of the 64 senior officials she tracked have resigned, been fired or reassigned.
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The presidency with the next-highest first-year turnover rate was Ronald Reagan's, with 17 percent of senior aides leaving in 1981. And Trump's first-year rate is three times Bill Clinton's 11 percent and Barack Obama's 9 percent.
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More: https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-departures-horizon-struggling-white-house-staff-074043869.html
I don't know whether the "in the past 40 years" meaning since 1977, is because data only goes back that far, or if there was more turnover in the Carter administration's 1st year (1977) (I doubt it) -- the article doesn't say. Well I suppose "past 40 years" would include 1977...
The article also discusses large numbers of lower level staffers leaving, but its anecdotal because the White House isn't providing statistics on that.
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