And four. US President Donald Trump announced on Friday March 6 that he has chosen one of his staunchest supporters, Mark Meadows, as the new White House chief of staff. "I know and work with Mark (Meadows) for a long time, and our relationship is really good ", Donald Trump tweeted that evening.
Meadows will be the fourth person to hold this position since the billionaire's presidency began.
Mark Meadows, 61, is elected to the House of Representatives for North Carolina. He announced in December that he would not run for Congress, but said his work with President Trump was not working. "What to start". Meadows will replace ultra-conservative Mick Mulvaney, who previously held the acting position. "I want to thank the acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney for having served this government so well. He will be the United States' special envoy to Northern Ireland "said Donald Trump on Friday.
A crucial post of the American Presidency
In the middle of the dismissal procedure against Donald Trump, Mr. Mulvaney had been criticized for a press conference during which he had admitted that military aid to Ukraine had been frozen at the request of the president and linked to political considerations American. "We do this all the time in foreign policy"he said. "Move on. Diplomacy is influenced by politics ”, he added, before later back pedaling.
The "Chief of staff", or secretary general of the White House, is a key position in the American presidency. He is the president’s right arm and the administration’s action coordinator.
Mick Mulvaney himself replaced John Kelly, dismissed by Donald Trump in December 2019. The first chief of staff to the republican billionaire had been the discreet Reince Priebus, former president of the republican party, who had left the ship before he had even passed the 200-day mark in office.
