This is the first real changing of the guard in the Biden administration. I hear 2024 calling!
The first real changing of the guard is underway in the Biden Administration. In the whirlwind span of a single weekend, rumors began to emerge that the president’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, would be leaving the White House. Hours later, Jeffrey Zients had been announced as his replacement.
Chief of staff can be a grueling job, and it’s not uncommon for a change to follow a midterm election. But Klain is by far the highest profile departure in the upper levels of a Biden White House that has remained surprisingly intact as it enters its third year. He is also the person in the president’s inner sanctum that progressives most feared losing.Is it a personnel change or a change in philosophy? That remains unclear.
But Zients has also won a number of impassioned critics for his work on the administration’s coronavirus response, including its lack of readiness during the Delta and Omicron waves; muddled and confused messaging on testing and boosters; and a failure to pursue funding for sustained covid prevention campaigns. Zients left the role after only a year.Other aspects of Zients’s background make the decision more ponderous.
, Zients’s investment fund Portfolio Logic featured multiple firms that paid out multimillion dollar settlements in cases brought by the Department of Justice alleging the defrauding of Medicare. In 2015, Portfolio Logic “agreed to pay almost $7 million to resolve allegations of fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid billing, involving a subsidiary that it purchased in
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