List of Trump administration dismissals and resignations

Many political appointees of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, have resigned or been dismissed. The record-setting turnover rate in the first year of the Trump Administration has been noted in various publications.[1][2][3] Several Trump appointees, including National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price have had the shortest service tenures in the history of their respective offices.[lower-alpha 1]

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Trump has justified the instability, saying: "We have acting people. The reason they are acting is because I'm seeing how I like them, and I'm liking a lot of them very, very much. There are people who have done a bad job, and I let them go. If you call that turmoil, I don't call that turmoil. I say that is being smart. That's what we do."[4]

For comprehensiveness, the list below includes, in addition to dismissals and resignations, routine job changes such as promotions (e.g. Gina Haspel from CIA Deputy Director to Director), officials moving to a comparable position (e.g. John F. Kelly from Secretary of Homeland Security to Chief of Staff), and acting or temporary officials being replaced by permanent ones. The list does not include many lower level positions, however, such as that of executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Matthew Doherty, dismissed in November 2019,[5] without a replacement to lead the council that was created in 1987. But some less prominent officials are listed because their departure was newsworthy.

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  Denotes appointees serving in an acting capacity.

  Denotes appointees to an office which has since been abolished

Executive Office of the President
Main article: Executive appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders 2

Office of the Vice President
Main article: Executive appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Agriculture
Main article: Department of Agriculture appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Commerce
Main article: Department of Commerce appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Defense
Main article: Department of Defense appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Education
Main article: Department of Education appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Energy
Main article: Department of Energy appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Health and Human Services
Main article: Department of Health and Human Services appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Homeland Security
Main article: Department of Homeland Security appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Housing and Urban Development
Main article: Department of Housing and Urban Development appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of the Interior
Main article: Department of the Interior appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Justice
Main article: Department of Justice appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Labor
Main article: Department of Labor appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of State
Main article: Department of State appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Transportation
Main article: Department of Transportation appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of the Treasury
Main article: Department of the Treasury appointments by Donald Trump § Previous officeholders

Department of Veterans Affairs
Office Name Took office Left office Notes

Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Robert Snyder		 January 20, 2017 February 14, 2017

David Shulkin		 February 14, 2017 March 28, 2018 On March 28, 2018, Trump announced on Twitter that Shulkin had been fired.[6][7] Following his dismissal, controversy erupted about efforts by the White House to privatize VA healthcare[8] and Shulkin's allegedly inappropriate taxpayer-funded foreign trips.[9]

Robert Wilkie		 March 28, 2018 May 29, 2018

Peter O'Rourke		 May 29, 2018 July 30, 2018

Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Gina Farrisee		 January 20, 2017 February 25, 2017
Scott Blackburn February 26, 2017 August 9, 2017

Thomas G. Bowman		 August 10, 2017 June 15, 2018 Retired.[10]

James Byrne		 September 16, 2019 February 3, 2020 [11]

General Counsel of Veterans Affairs		 August 8, 2017 September 16, 2019 [11]

Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Health)		 Poonam Alaigh May 2017 September 25, 2017 [12]

Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs
(Human Resources and Administration)
Peter Shelby		 February 24, 2018 Summer 2018 Retired.

Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs
(Operations, Security and Preparedness)
Donald P. Loren

Intelligence community
Office Name Took office Left office Notes

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency		 Meroe Park January 20, 2017 January 23, 2017

Mike Pompeo		 January 23, 2017 April 26, 2018 Became Secretary of State.

Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Gina Haspel		 February 2, 2017 May 21, 2018 Became Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Director of National Intelligence
Dan Coats		 March 16, 2017 August 15, 2019 [13]

Joseph Maguire		 August 16, 2019 February 21, 2020 [14]

Director of the National Counterterrorism Center		 December 27, 2018 August 16, 2019

Russell Travers		 December 24, 2017 December 27, 2018
August 16, 2019 March 18, 2020 [15]

Deputy Director of the National Counterterrorism Center		 November 13, 2017 March 18, 2020

Director of National Intelligence
Richard Grenell		 February 20, 2020 May 26, 2020 Grenell was also Ambassador to Germany.

Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Susan M. Gordon		 September 5, 2017 August 15, 2019 Gordon leaving along with Coats cleared the way for Trump to appoint Maguire as acting DNI.[lower-alpha 2]

Andrew P. Hallman		 October 30, 2019 February 21, 2020 [16]

Chief Operating Officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Deirdre Walsh		 February 2018 May 8, 2020 [17]

General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Jason Klitenic		 August 6, 2018 March 2020 [18]
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community
Michael Atkinson		 May 17, 2018 April 2020 Fired by Trump after raising concerns from a whistleblower that led to Trump's impeachment[19]

Independent agencies
Office Name Took office Left office Notes

Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Jay Clayton		 May 4, 2017 December 31, 2020 [20]

Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
J. Christopher Giancarlo		 August 3, 2017 April 13, 2019

Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Richard Cordray		 January 4, 2012 November 24, 2017 After President Trump was inaugurated, he and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney worked to undermine Cordray and the CFPB.[21]

Mick Mulvaney		 November 25, 2017 December 11, 2018

Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
David Silberman		 January 11, 2016 November 24, 2017
Leandra English November 24, 2017 July 9, 2018

Chief of External Affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service		 Carl Higbie August 2017 January 19, 2018 Resigned in January 2018 after racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments, and comments about fellow veterans with PTSD, came to light.[22][23]

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Scott Pruitt		 February 17, 2017 July 9, 2018 Resignation tendered July 5, to be effective Friday, July 6, when the Deputy Administrator became Acting Administrator.[24][25]

Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Andrew R. Wheeler		 April 20, 2018 February 28, 2019 Became EPA Administrator.[26]

Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Air and Radiation
William Wehrum		 November 20, 2017 June 30, 2019

General Counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency
Matthew Leopold		 January 8, 2018 October 5, 2020 [27]

Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
Mignon Clyburn		 August 3, 2009 June 2018 Retired.

Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
Philip A. Miscimarra		 January 23, 2017 April 23, 2017
April 24, 2017 December 16, 2017

Member of the National Mediation Board
Linda Puchala		 November 2, 2017 July 1, 2018

Director of the Office of Government Ethics
Walter Shaub		 January 9, 2013 July 19, 2017 Shaub was outspoken with concerns about the Trump Administration during the transition period and after Trump's inauguration.[28][29][30][31][32] Shaub resigned six months before the end of his term, saying that ethics rules should be tighter.[33][34]

Director of the Office of Personnel Management
Jeff Tien Han Pon		 March 9, 2018 October 5, 2018

Margaret Weichert		 October 5, 2018 September 16, 2019
Dale Cabaniss September 16, 2019 March 17, 2020 [35]

President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Ray Washburne		 September 5, 2017 March 1, 2019

Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency
Mel Watt		 January 6, 2014 January 6, 2019

Administrator of the Small Business Administration
Joseph Loddo		 January 20, 2017 February 14, 2017

Linda McMahon		 February 14, 2017 April 12, 2019 In March 2019, the former WWE executive announced she was leaving the SBA to work for the America First Action SuperPAC.[36]

Chris Pilkerton		 April 13, 2019 January 13, 2020 Pilkerton was also the General Counsel of the SBA from June 2017 to March 2020.

Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration
Althea Coetzee		 August 3, 2017 April 15, 2018 [37]

Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission
Ann M. Ravel		 October 25, 2013 March 1, 2017

Lee E. Goodman		 October 22, 2013 February 16, 2018

Matthew S. Petersen		 June 24, 2008 August 31, 2019

Caroline C. Hunter		 June 24, 2008 July 3, 2020 [38]

United States Postmaster General
Megan Brennan		 February 1, 2015 June 15, 2020 [39]

Deputy United States Postmaster General		 Ronald Stroman March 2011 June 1, 2020 [40]

Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
Mark Green		 August 7, 2017 April 10, 2020 [41]

Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
Bonnie Glick		 January 2019 November 6, 2020 Terminated without cause by the Trump Administration hours before acting Administrator John Barsa reached the maximum amount of time allowed to serve in that position without Senate confirmation under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.[42][43][44]

Deputy White House Liaison of the United States Agency for International Development		 Merritt Corrigan June 2020 August 3, 2020 Forced out after a history of anti-LGBTQ comments soon after starting in the role.[45]

NASA Associate Administrator
(Human Exploration and Operations)
William Gerstenmaier		 August 12, 2005 July 10, 2019

Ken Bowersox		 July 10, 2019 October 16, 2019
Doug Loverro October 16, 2019 May 19, 2020 Bowersox returned as Acting Associate Administrator.[46]

Director of the Voice of America
Amanda Bennett		 March 2016 June 15, 2020 [47]

Director of Middle East Broadcasting Networks
Alberto Fernandez		 July 2017 June 17, 2020 Fired by Michael Pack, the new CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media[48]

President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty		 Jamie Fly August 1, 2019

President of Radio Free Asia		 Bay Fang November 20, 2019

Chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority
James "Skip" Thompson		 May 2019 August 3, 2020 Fired after TVA announced that 200 American workers would be replaced with cheaper foreign workers. That decision was reversed on August 6.[49]

Banks
Office Name Took office Left office Notes
Governor of the African Development Bank
Geoffrey Okamoto[50]		 March 2018

Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

See also

Notes
  1. Excluding interim appointments.
  2. Coats or Gordon may be the "senior national security official" who told Jake Tapper: "Everyone at this point ignores what the president says and just does their job. The American people should take some measure of confidence in that."

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