US President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, is expected to resign from this very sensitive and central position in the White House soon after two years, several US media said on Saturday. According to The New York Times, Ron Klain “has privately confided to his peers since the November midterm elections that after a trying and uninterrupted stint alongside Joe Biden, dating back to the 2020 campaign, he is ready to move on.”
That staffer’s departure to one of the positions closest to the president could come after Joe Biden’s annual State of the Union address, which is scheduled for Feb. 7, the New York daily adds. Ron Klain would step down at a crucial time in his tenure. The 46th President of the United States, aged 80, could officially announce in the coming weeks that he is running for president in 2024, while his great Republican rival Donald Trump, 76, has already applied.
After midterm elections in November, which were far less catastrophic than expected for the Democrats, who retained control of the Senate and narrowly lost the majority in the House of Representatives, Joe Biden recently got into trouble for his vice presidency over the case of the confidential documents (2009- 2017) found in an office and in his private home when they were due to be turned over to the National Archives.
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After former White House Speaker Jen Psaki, who left in 2022, Joe Biden’s Ron Klain departure would be the second largest since he took office. In general, the position of chief of staff is rarely held by the same person for four consecutive years during the same presidential term. Four chiefs of staff followed each other under Donald Trump.
Ron Klain, 61, was Vice President Al Gore’s chief of staff from 1995 to 1999, then to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011. During Barack Obama’s administration, he served as coordinator for the White House response to the Ebola virus crisis.