Biden aides ‘tapped out’, officials head for revolving door in major WH shake up: ‘It doesn’t look good’

It seems like everyone is heading for the revolving door at the White House these days, with a number of top officials elbowing each other on the way out as President Joe Biden’s approval rating tanks and midterm elections loom.

Although some White House turnover is to be expected 18 months into a term, a stampede is not. The rush for the exits comes at a very critical moment for Democrats as it is widely expected they are going to get thrashed during the midterm elections, possibly costing them both the Senate and the House.

“Given the complex challenges that the administration is facing, these departures are coming at an inopportune time,” Democratic strategist Joel Payne lamented.

“It’s been a long few years,” an anonymous senior administration official said according to The Hill. “The burnout is real. It might not be the ideal time to leave with everything going on, but it’s the right time.” The White House official also claimed

According to the official, the early summer months are see seen as the best time to depart and claimed many White House aides are “tapped out,” according to the Hill. It’s convenient that they are jumping ship before the bloodbath of the upcoming midterms.

The biggest shake-up this week came from departing White House counsel Dana Remus, who is set to leave next month and be replaced by her top deputy Stuart Delery. Remus was reportedly the driving force behind the tapping of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. She also oversaw the filling of a long list of federal judicial seats, according to The Hill.

As the House and Senate potentially flip red in the midterms, the White House counsel’s office will be pivotal in responding to requests by Republican lawmakers, who are expected to lead numerous probes into the Biden administration.

Former Rep. Chris Carney (D-Pa.), who is a Biden ally and senior policy adviser at Nossaman LLP, contends that Remus’ departure is perfect timing for the White House to prepare for such investigations. They will now start gathering the legal troops to fight what they know is coming from the right.

“I think it would be more surprising if she left in the fall. I think that her timing now provides Delery more than ample time to get prepared for the kinds of onslaught they expect from Republicans in the fall,” he told The Hill.

Not everyone on the left is on board with that optimistic assessment.

“It doesn’t look good,” one Democratic strategist noted to the media outlet. “The perception from the outside is that it’s not the place you want to be. There’s a lot of finger-pointing going around right now. It doesn’t seem like it’s humming the way it should be.”

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, was named senior adviser to the president for public engagement this week and will replace former Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.). Bottoms was on Biden’s shortlist for vice presidential contenders before he chose Kamala Harris.

“I think bringing Lance Bottoms on was kind of a genius stroke, and I’m very glad that she agreed to do it. She does have a very broad background in Democratic politics. Her positions in politics, and in Georgia politics in particular, will be very helpful going into the midterms but also going into 2024,” Carney posited.

Julie Chavez Rodriguez was promoted this week to senior adviser and assistant to the president and plans to continue serving as director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs as well. Chavez Rodriquez is the granddaughter of farm worker rights leader Cesar Chavez.

The attrition from the White House press office is also impressive. Former press secretary Jen Psaki, who took a gig at MSNBC, was replaced by less-than-impressive Karine Jean-Pierre.

Rapid Response Director Mike Gwin also left for a role at the Treasury Department and press mediator Michael Kikukawa departed this week for a role at Treasury as well.

Vedant Patel, who had served as an assistant press secretary, left for the State Department and Amanda Finney, who is the former chief of staff in the White House press office, left for the Department of Energy.

As Finney found her way out the exit, Jean-Pierre joked about the multiple departures during a recent press briefing earlier this month.

“I know every day, every day I’m going to be doing these little goodbyes, but I promise we will have a press shop,” she nervously joked. “But not everyone is leaving.”

It sure seems that way as many Democrats brace themselves for the political fallout that is about to hit the fan via the midterm elections.

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15 thoughts on “Biden aides ‘tapped out’, officials head for revolving door in major WH shake up: ‘It doesn’t look good’

  1. I wouldn’t get too optimistic about the 2022 congressional elections. In Arizona Maricopa County has not changed the most corrupt practices of 2020. Dominion voting machines, mail-in ballots, no precinct voting, county recorder bureaucrat staff inspects envelope signatures, polls open for weeks, voting registrations not purged remain ready for this year..

    Yet, all that was true in 2016. And Trump did well in spite of the corruption. But then we had a GOP Secretary of State and a GOP County Recorder.

  2. The Ship of Fools, a.k.a., “The White House Titanic”, was leaking from the start and in November, it’s going to hit an electoral ice berg!

  3. It was inevitable. The whole of the current office is built on lies, is only in office because of lies, is corrupt as hell (Biden’s dealings with China). It cannot sustain the lie for a full term

  4. Notice they are all running to other cushy government jobs so they can continue to feed at the government trough and not produce any results. No wonder our government is completely incompetent.

    Let’s go Brandon and take your government employees with you.

  5. “everyone is heading for the revolving door at the White House these days, with a number of top officials elbowing each other on the way out”

    Who’s to blame this time, Putin, climate change, oil companies?

    1. Oh, it has to be Pres. Trump’s fault, right? After all, according to Beijing Biden Trump is to blame for everything~~ from the Russian invasion to last year’s hurricanes.

  6. These aides knew from early on how despicable our pseudo pres is, as well as how traitorous are his policies, so, why wait until now to flee?

  7. Ahh yeah, the old get in for some facetime recognition, help destroy the country and make a few (quite a few) quick dollars while you’re at it and, then jump ship before anyone thinks to put a face with the name of one of the many who have helped send us straight into the economic nose dive we’re all experiencing.

  8. I still have a hard time thinking that anyone can still support the present administration. Even some who are struggling will still verbally support Biden and what is happening to the country. Is it pure pride that keeps them verbally embracing him but secretly planning to vote against the left and its continuing to cause more hardships?

  9. Can’t imagine it works well in social circles “what do you do?” “Oh, I work for the Biden Admin at …” Bet they all gather round and give thanks, huh? And on the other end, they realize the market is about to fall thru the cracks on what their homes are worth and what it’ll cost to move elsewhere and are skedaddling as fast as they can. Not going to save them though with all the lawsuits and criminal charges.

  10. I would be embarrassed to admit I worked for the dems right now. Like if the role were reversed and Trump ruined the economy, let violence spiral, babies go hungry and criminals cross the border in record numbers, I would just stay off social media and not talk about it at all. It is so bad anyone who wants to have a career in politics after this fiasco should be running and hiding, wiping their tracks, deleting their accounts and staying out of sight. Or they should be doing anything possible to get Joe and Kamala out of the WH and the old than dirt dems in congress out too.

  11. NOTHING about this administration looks good..

    How long can this last ?

    How long will it be before the left joins ranks with the right, and get this no good , worthless , addled , corrupt , anti America POS OUT THE DOOR ?
    Those on the left that have ANY chance of saving face with the VOTERS better realize that they are betting on a loser, and pull the plug FAST
    Had enough yet America ?

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