Nielsen expected to be forced out at DHS when protector Kelly leaves White House
by Anna Giaritelli
December 16, 2018 12:00 AM Former officials predict Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to be shown the door as head of the Department of Homeland Security now that Trump's chief of staff John Kelly is leaving.
"I don’t expect her to stay long after Gen. Kelly departs," said a former senior DHS official who worked in the agency during President Trump's first year in office.
John Sandweg, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2013 to 2014, said he's long expected that any change to Nielsen's status would happen when President Trump named a replacement for White House chief of staff John Kelly.
"I would suspect that they may package this with the chief of staff decision," Sandweg said in an email. Nielsen and Kelly are close. She prepped Kelly for his confirmation hearing to lead DHS at the beginning of 2017, and after Kelly was confirmed, she went to work for the department.
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