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High-level White House departures

By Duncan Mil

March 7, 2018 - White House chief economic advisor Gary Cohn has resigned joining a string of recent departures by high-level personnel and further fueling concerns that the Trump administration is in chaos.

The Trump Administration has seen the highest rate of turnover among White House staff in decades, according to the Brookings Institution.

Team Trump saw a 34 percent turnover rate during the president’s first year. The next-highest turnover rate for an administration’s first year was Ronald Reagan’s, with 17% of senior aides leaving their posts in 1981.

Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton saw much lower turnovers during their first year in office -- 9%, 6%, and 11%, respectively.

This time last year, Reince Priebus was still chief of staff, Sean Spicer was still press secretary, and Stephen Bannon was probably the second most powerful man in America.

The Brookings report that tracked departures of senior officials over the last 40 years concludes that only five of the 12 positions considered most central to the president are still filled by the same people as when the president took office.

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PUBLISHED: 07/03/2018; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press
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