Head of Justice Department office on Civil Rights resigns : NPR

"Harmeet Dhillon has been the most destructive, lawless, and hateful head of the Civil Rights Division in DOJ history," said Stacey Young, a former division attorney. "Dhillon wielded the enormous power of the Justice Department to threaten universities, state and local officials, and election workers in spurious cases that rarely won in court."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/11/05/g-s1-152080/head-of-justice-department-office-on-civil-rights-resigns

 

Mike Johnson will step aside as top House Republican : NPR

After a bruising defeat for Republicans, House Speaker Mike Johnson does not plan to stay on as Republican leader in the new Congress, according to a source familiar with his plans who was not authorized to discuss them publicly…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/11/04/g-s1-151854/2026-midterms-mike-johnson-speaker

 

Exit of RFK Jr. ally widens rift in GOP tent - POLITICO

Means’ departure, administration officials said, was the result of his frustration with resistance inside Trump’s orbit to advancing Kennedy’s efforts to discourage Americans from eating junk food…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/23/rfk-robert-kennedy-calley-means-maha-resign-01134066

 

Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’

An 18-year veteran of the US Department of the Interior has resigned in protest from the sprawling federal agency, denouncing “a deeply troubling assault on the rule of the law” that took place at the department under Donald Trump…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/veteran-conservative-quits-trumps-interior-department 

 

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken

 

A Leading Anti-Abortion Zealot Just Quit the FBI – Mother Jones

Andrew Bailey has been hellbent on eradicating access to abortion pills. Conservatives have lost a key ally at a critical time…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/andrew-bailey-anti-abortion-zealot-quits-fbi/ 

 

Tillis renews calls for Hegseth's ouster - Live Updates - POLITICO

“I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country,” the outgoing two-term North Carolina Republican wrote on X...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/02/congress/tillis-hegseth-trump-01062001

 

Who Is Running the Ship?

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UXt3VfW9BlQ

 

US army secretary Dan Driscoll resigns over reported friction with Pete Hegseth

Resignation comes after months of turmoil at Pentagon, from leaked investigation to ousting of senior officials…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/31/army-secretary-dan-driscoll-resigns 

 

The Iran war is testing a depleted Treasury - POLITICO

“If you’re focused on everything, you’re focused on nothing,” said a former administration official, who, like others in the story, was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “If you’re a job candidate and you want to go work in the government and the writing on the wall is clear now that the Treasury Department is focused on Iran, can you recruit the best people to [help manage jittery investors in U.S. government debt]? Especially if you’ve seen the pattern of departures that you have?”

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/21/bessent-portfolio-treasury-iran-01045672

 

Beshear urges McConnell to provide more info on his health or resign - Live Updates - POLITICO

The administration declared in an interim final rule released last month that a diagnosis, even for a disease as grave as cancer, isn’t enough to claim an exemption from the 80-hour requirement, unless beneficiaries submit additional proof that they physically can’t work. Democratic attorneys general from 25 states and Washington, D.C. plan to argue the rule is both too strict, in not offering blanket exemptions to people with certain diseases, and too vague, in failing to guide states on how to determine who is too sick to work — and will ask the judge to block the stricter medical frailty policy...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/28/congress/beshear-mcconnell-health-update-resign-01013412

 

Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence - POLITICO

The former Democratic member of Congress said she was stepping aside to support her husband as he battles bone cancer...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/tulsi-gabbard-director-of-national-intelligence-resigns-00933872

Top Treasury lawyer exits amid $1.8B Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund - POLITICO

Brian Morrissey, who was confirmed by the Senate in October and served as Treasury’s top legal officer, stepped down on Monday. His departure came the same day the Trump administration announced it would create that $1.776 billion fund to resolve Trump’s lawsuit, an unusual arrangement that has provoked bipartisan criticism...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/morrissey-treasury-anti-weaponization-irs-00927843 

US border patrol chief resigns abruptly amid string of exits by Trump immigration officials

The resignation comes weeks after the Washington Examiner reported that six current and former border patrol employees had accused Banks of regularly paying for sex with prostitutes during trips to Colombia and Thailand over more than a decade, and bragging about it to colleagues...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/us-border-patrol-chief-resigns  

Staff decry ‘constant turbulence’ under Trump’s labor secretary, as she blames ‘deep state’ in resignation

“Secretary Chavez-DeRemer advanced the administration’s anti-worker agenda, facing removal only for the scandals she was involved in, and not the decisions she made that reduced oversight of workplace safety and enforcement of labor laws, leaving workers more vulnerable to injury, wage theft and exploitation,” said the congressional members in a statement. “Her tenure leaves workers with less protections and greater economic insecurity.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/lori-chavez-deremer-resign-trump-labor-secretary-staff 

Navy secretary is out - POLITICO

The Pentagon announced John Phelan’s surprise departure without citing a reason...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/22/navy-secretary-out-00887887

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer out amid misconduct investigation : NPR

In January, the New York Post first reported that the Labor Department's inspector general was looking into complaints that Chavez-DeRemer was having an affair with a subordinate, drinking alcohol on the job and using taxpayer-funded travel to visit with friends and family members...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/nx-s1-5739251/labor-secretary-trump-chavez-deremer

FBI and Justice Department try to rebuild after wave of resignations and firings | PBS News

The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the past year, with leaders easing hiring requirements and accelerating recruitment in ways that some current and former officials see as a lowering of long-accepted standards…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-and-justice-department-try-to-rebuild-after-wave-of-resignations-and-firings 

Republican Tony Gonzales to step down from Congress amid expulsion threat

Gonzales, who admitted affair with aide who later died by suicide, says he will file retirement from office on Tuesday…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/13/republican-tony-gonzales-congress

 

Democrat Eric Swalwell to resign from Congress over sexual assault allegations

Decision comes after House ethics committee announced it had opened an investigation into congressman…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/13/house-ethics-committee-eric-swalwell-investigation