With Rex Tillerson out at the State Department and CIA Director Mike Pompeo in line to replace him, President Trump’s Cabinet is undergoing its fifth major change. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team reacts to Trump’s historic turnover levels, debates what the departure means and discusses what comes next. You can listen to the episode by […]
The Tuesday dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made him the third senior official to depart President Trump’s administration in two weeks, along with communications director Hope Hicks and White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn. Secretary of state is, in theory, a much more powerful job than the posts held by Cohn and […]
The announcement Tuesday that President Trump is replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with current CIA Director Mike Pompeo adds two more staff changes to Trump’s already highly unstable Cabinet roster. In November, I compared turnover in Trump’s 24-position Cabinet to turnover in the same jobs in presidential administrations going back to President Jimmy Carter. […]