President Donald Trump is actively considering a “broader cabinet shake-up” following his high-profile firing this week of Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House insiders revealed to Reuters in its report Saturday.
"Let's just say, based on what I have heard, Bondi is not the last one,” one White House official told the outlet, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Trump fired Bondi this week after growing frustrated over her inability to secure criminal convictions of his perceived enemies, as well as her handling of the Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein files, reports have suggested. Bondi’s firing came just weeks after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was ousted by Trump, the first high-profile cabinet-level shake-up of Trump’s second term.
Since Bondi's removal, Trump has continued to grow "increasingly frustrated with the political fallout from the war with Iran,” Reuters reported, and is actively considering firing more of his top administration officials.
“A shake-up to show action is not a bad thing, is it?" another White House official told Reuters, also speaking on the condition of anonymity.
While sources told Reuters that Trump has yet to commit to firing a specific cabinet member, “several of the sources” said that the president has been asking allies their thoughts on “potential replacements” for National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard. The sources told Reuters that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was also potentially “on the chopping block,” the outlet reported.
Trump’s alleged frustrations with the political fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran was exacerbated, Reuters reported, by the president’s addresses to the nation this week, which one White House official said did not go well.
“The speech did not accomplish what it was supposed to,” an official told Reuters, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “Voters tolerate ideological messaging, but they feel fuel prices immediately.”