Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price resigned Friday, the White House announced, becoming the latest casualty in an administration that has been full of turnover in its first months.
"Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the President accepted," press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
The Trump administration has been rocked by a series of high-profile exits — including Sean Spicer as press secretary and James Comey as FBI director — since the president took office in January.
Here are the top-level people who've either been fired or resigned from the Trump administration:
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Tom Price
Price had elicited bipartisan condemnation over the cost of his air travel. Price cost taxpayers more than $1 million between his use of private planes for domestic travel, and military jets for recent trips to Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Sebastian Gorka
A White House official confirmed Sebastian Gorka's departure from the Trump administration Friday night.
The former Breitbart staffer and Steve Bannon ally served as a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump.
His departure comes one week after Bannon left the administration to return to Breitbart. In his departing letter, first published on a pro-Trump website, Gorka told Trump he could better serve the president's "America First" agenda from the outside.
Gorka was aligned with a once-ascendant nationalist arm of the Trump administration, occupied most prominently by Bannon and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller. Bannon's departure was seen as a significant blow to other nationalist, far-right figures in the White House and Gorka implied as much in his letter, saying it was clear to him that "forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House."
Steve Bannon
White House officials confirmed that Trump had dismissed Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, on Friday after reports of clashes between Bannon and other members of the White House reached a fever pitch in recent days.
Bannon, who was instrumental in focusing the message of Trump's 2016 campaign, was considered the main conduit between Trump and his base of far-right voters. Bannon submitted his resignation to Trump earlier in August, The New York Times reports.
Matt Drudge, the conservative blogger, said Bannon might return to his former job as executive chairman of Breitbart News.
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