Trump advisers abandon effort to find new chief of staff to serve Pete Hegseth
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from World news | The Guardian on (#6YV3S)
Exclusive: White House has left Ricky Buria to continue in role in an acting capacity as efforts to block him fizzled
Donald Trump's advisers have abandoned an effort to find a new chief of staff to the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, allowing senior adviser Ricky Buria to continue performing the duties in an acting role despite once viewing him as a liability, according to people familiar with the matter.
Buria is not expected to formally receive the White House's approval to become the permanent chief of staff to Hegseth, a position that became vacant after the first chief of staff, Joe Kasper, left in the wake of major upheaval in the secretary's front office earlier this year.
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