President Donald Trump is considering firing more Cabinet members following his ousting of Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, according to reports.
White House insiders told Politico that the president is frustrated with his secretaries for commerce and labor, Howard Lutnick and Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and is considering removing them from their positions.
Bondi is the second Cabinet member to be fired from the Trump administration within a month, after Kristi Noem was removed from her position as Secretary of Homeland Security on March 5.
“He is very angry,” an administration official told Politico. Adding, “and he’s going to be moving people.”
A second staffer told the outlet that Trump is looking to get rid of people who have “generated too much negative attention.” This comes amid news that the president has a lower approval rating than Richard Nixon did at the height of the Watergate scandal, according to CNN poll analysis.
Chavez DeRemer has had her fair share of scandals since working at the White House. She is accused of bringing her staffers to a strip club while on a work trip, and her husband has been banned from the Labor Department HQ over allegations of sexual harassment.
Mixed messages are coming from the White House regarding Lutnick, with one insider telling Politico that he is on “thin ice.”
However, another said, “Everyone is thrilled with the job Howard has done.”
Lutnick was a neighbor of Jeffrey Epstein in New York and was one of the architects of the Trump tariffs, which were ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court.
If DeRemer were to be fired, she would be the third woman to lose her job in the Trump administration.
Polymarket prediction makers are hypothesizing that Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of War, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, are also in the firing line, ranking them both as more likely to get fired than Chavez-DeRemer or Lutnick.
In regard to these reports, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told The Independent, “Secretaries Chavez-DeRemer and Lutnick are both doing a great job standing up for American workers, and they continue to have President Trump’s full support.”
A separate White House spokesperson, Davis Ingle, later told The Independent, “President Trump has the most talented cabinet and team in American history. Patriots like Kash Patel, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and Dan Driscoll are tirelessly implementing the President’s agenda and achieving tremendous results for the American people.”
Despite Bondi’s seemingly sudden firing, the president has reportedly been frustrated with her performance over the past few months, and speculation has centered on her handling of the Epstein Files.
Her firing also came the day after Donald Trump became the first president in U.S. history to sit in on arguments at the Supreme Court. He was listening to lawyers from the Department of Justice, Bondi’s former department, argue for his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
The first day of arguments saw Trump-appointed justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett express skepticism over Trump’s executive order. Although they may end up ruling with the president, reports from the first day of oral arguments did not look positive for Trump’s executive order.
Noem was fired in early March over a culmination of scandals, including the deaths of two American citizens in Minnesota at anti-ICE protests, spending millions of dollars on ad campaigns, and rumors of interpersonal misconduct in her department.
Although Noem was then appointed to another position within the administration as special envoy to the Shield of the Americas, it is reported that Bondi will be returning to the private sector.
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