Trump weighs more Cabinet changes, but wants to avoid 'massive shake-up'

Source: Washington Post

Updated April 3, 2026 at 8:58 p.m. EDT


After ousting two of his highest-profile Cabinet members from their posts, President Donald Trump is considering making more changes to his administration’s top leadership, according to advisers — a decision that would accelerate the once-slow pace of his second-term staff departures.

But Trump, who sought to avoid high-profile departures during the first year back in the White House — often publicly standing by Cabinet members even as they faced scrutiny — is also reluctant to engage in a large-scale shake-up of his Cabinet, and in some cases has pushed to counter reporting that he has soured on certain officials.

On the heels of news of the firing Thursday of his attorney general, Pam Bondi, Trump wanted to make a “very strong” statement reaffirming his support for another official rumored to be on the chopping block, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, according to a White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations. As a result, his rapid-response account on X posted a statement from Trump’s communications director saying that the president “has total confidence” in Gabbard, “and any insinuation otherwise is totally fake news.”

Gabbard, who has a long history of criticizing U.S. involvement in Middle East conflicts — specifically the notion of a war with Iran — has continued to brief the president on intelligence, even as Trump earlier this week told reporters that Gabbard was “a little bit different in her thought process than me” on Iran. Gabbard is “safe” in her role for the time being, the White House official said. Two others in his Cabinet may be less secure. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have both been under Trump’s scrutiny for a possible exit, according to the same official and a second White House official.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/03/trump-cabinet-lutnick-deremer-blanche-bondi

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My bet is the women because women are considered window-dressing by them and are throw-aways. MAGat women are sycophants for their own denigration, love deferring to their men, and will approve. Gabbard and Chavez-DeRemer are easy low-hanging fruit. In general. the women that 45 has in his administration are evil idiots as it is.