Trump loses three female cabinet ministers in six months, after Susie Wiles
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on IOL
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is leaving her post one day after Republicans' defeat in the midterm elections. Of the eight women holding key posts at the start of the second term, only three remain, according to AFP.
The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is leaving her post, one day after Republicans' defeat in the midterm elections, according to AFP. She joins a list of women who have left key positions in Donald Trump’s administration since the start of the year.
At the start of his second term, Donald Trump boasted of having more women in his government than any previous Republican president. Eight women then held important posts, out of more than twenty. Eighteen months later, only three remain: Brooke Rollins at Agriculture, Linda McMahon at Education and Kelly Loeffler, who heads the Small Business Administration, the federal agency for small businesses. In the spring, half of them were removed within three months, including Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, Pam Bondi, Attorney General, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, and Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence.
Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses Donald Trump of dismissing only female secretaries and rewarding the men in his circle, even when they make mistakes. Stephen Miller, appointed chief of staff on 6 November, has replaced Susie Wiles, according to our previous reporting.
