Trump hints 'there will always be change' as rumors of staff shakeups loom

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published 15 March 2018

President Trump has to date shed roughly 40 of the staffers under his employ when he took office last January, many of them advisers he himself appointed before later giving them the ax. On Thursday, he reiterated his belief that shakeups are good, The New York Times reports, saying, "There will always be change. I think you want change."

Even the strait-laced Times acknowledged Trump's remarks landed "ominously," given that the president fired his secretary of state via Twitter just two days ago. "I want to also see different ideas," Trump said, per the Times.

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And then there's Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose original sin — the decision to recuse himself from oversight of the Russia investigation — made him the regular target of presidential ire. The attorney general has threatened to resign at least once, but has more recently indicated his determination to resist Mr. Trump's obvious desire for him to leave his post at the Justice Department. [The New York Times]

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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.