White House border coordinator Jacobson leaving at month's end -White House
Source: Reuters
APRIL 9, 20213:25 PMUPDATED 22 MINUTES AGO
By Steve Holland
2 MIN READ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House border coordinator Roberta Jacobson is leaving her job at the end of April, the White House said on Friday, a move that comes weeks after Vice President Kamala Harris took over U.S. diplomatic efforts in Central America.
While the White House insisted Jacobsons departure was planned, the announcement still came as a surprise as she had been engaged in media interviews in the days leading up to her announcement and had shown no sign of planning to step down.
Consistent with her commitment at the outset to serve in the administrations first 100 days, Ambassador Jacobson will retire from her role as coordinator at the end of this month, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
The statement made no mention of a replacement for the role, saying only that Harris had been asked by President Joe Biden to lead the administrations work with Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-jacobson/white-house-border-coordinator-jacobson-leaving-at-months-end-white-house-idUSKBN2BW2PQ
DURHAM D
(32,595 posts)the press will do everything they can to make it a bitch fight.
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(12,994 posts)leaving is no surprise.
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(32,626 posts)in the first 100 days? Eff the optics.
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)and she was briefly the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico at the end of Obama's last year of his last term and left in 2018. She then volunteered to be on the Biden transition team in 2020 so it makes sense that once the transition was pretty much completed, she would move on. There are many many mid and lower level positions left to be filled in the administration so she may end up back in a different role at some point.