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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump’s new chief of staff will have “full authority” to bring structure and discipline to the White House.
Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says all West Wing staff will report to John Kelly, Trump’s former Homeland Security Secretary, who was named Monday as the new chief of staff.
Sanders is also clarifying why Trump’s new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, was let go from his job only 11 days after being appointed.
CNN’s Brian Stelter and Gloria Borger make the point that Scaramucci was “getting bigger” than President Trump, who is the “only star” in the White House, which didn’t help his already tenuous position. .
Sanders says the president believes Scaramucci’s recent off-color remarks to The New Yorker were “inappropriate.” She says Scaramucci will not have a position in the administration.
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