Trump’s ‘Happy Place’ White House Gets Slow-Motion Face-Lift
- The shakeup that started with Sessions is gathering momentum
- Repositioning for a divided Congress, 2020 re-election battle
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President Donald Trump is continuing a slow-motion face-lift of his administration that started the day after a wave of Republican losses in the November midterm elections.
After removing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump took a month before ousting his chief of staff, John Kelly with no successor in place. The count rose to three on Saturday, when the president said Ryan Zinke, besieged with ethics investigations in his tenure as Secretary of Interior, would soon step down.