Top Obama aide is demoted
William Daley is stepping away from some his day-to-day duties as White House chief of staff.
Just 10 months into his tenure as White House chief of staff, William Daley is stepping away from some day-to-day duties in what political observers are calling a “demotion.” White House missteps in the debt-ceiling fight and in its relations with Republicans and Democrats in Congress are said to be behind the move. Senior adviser Pete Rouse, a longtime “fixer” and confidant of President Obama, will assume an expanded coordination role in the West Wing. Daley, 63, “took some heat for the problems with Congress,” said a White House source, including the scheduling foul-up this summer over the president’s address to the joint session of Congress.
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