Ron Klain set to step down as Biden chief of staff: reports
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is set to step down after serving President Biden for two years, according to multiple reports.
Klain’s impending resignation is the most significant departure of a key White House player Biden since the president took office in 2021.
TOU has not independently confirmed Klains’ departure.
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Klain, a longtime Biden confidant and Democratic operative, was a Democratic president’s longest-serving chief of staff. He previously served as Biden’s chief of staff when he was vice president in the Obama administration and is a lawyer and former lobbyist.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Klain began his career working for the then Delaware senator. In the late 1980s, when Biden headed the Senate Judiciary Committee, Klain was the committee’s chief counsel. Additionally, he served as an adviser and speechwriter for Biden’s unsuccessful 1988 and 2008 White House campaigns.
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President Biden, right, greets Ron Klain, White House Chief of Staff, upon arriving for a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, U.S., Wednesday, June 30, 2021.
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He has also been involved in both of Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaigns and served as Presidential Debate Coach for Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton in addition to President Biden.
Klain was a senior aide to Barack Obama in the White House and chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore. Klain is played by Kevin Spacey in the HBO drama “Recount,” based on the 2000 election and the Bush v. Gore case when George W. Bush ultimately won the election.
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FILM: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain joins other guests for a celebration of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House.
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The New York Times reported that a number of candidates are being considered to replace Klain, including Secretary of Labor Martin J. Walsh; Steven J. Richchetti, advisor to the president; Jeffrey D. Zients, the former White House coronavirus response coordinator; and White House domestic policy adviser Susan Rice, among others.
It is unclear when a successor will be named.
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TOU’ Bryn McCarthy contributed to this report.
