The White House’s post-impeachment loyalty purge is creating high-level personnel churn, felling two senior officials this week and raising new questions about Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s waning influence
after Trump effectively removed him as chairman of a committee overseeing $2 trillion in emergency coronavirus funding.
the White House's withdrawal of several DoD nominees serves as a reminder to senior Pentagon officials, both political appointees and career civil servants, not to cross a president who's keeping score. “This kind of churn is generally bad because the wider the cracks are, the more things fall through the cracks,” said Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College, who was speaking in a personal capacity.“Obviously political appointments are politicized in the sense that they need to be people the president trusts and feels will faithfully carry out his agenda, but these are also positions of public trust and service,” Cohn said. “Mr.
Yet the situation raises questions as to how forcefully Pentagon leaders — especially Esper — can push back against a White House focused on rooting out those considered not loyal enough to Trump. In certain cases, even the appearance of disloyalty is enough to harm the careers of officials. White House and Pentagon officials who were asked about Wheelbarger could not point to specific issues they had with her performance; current and former officials told POLITICO the tension was simply her ties to Mattis and McCain.“Katie brought a wealth of experience and the utmost professionalism to the Department throughout her service.
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