The departures are common when a transition takes place, but it is now happening more quickly and on a larger scale than under previous administrations, a U.S. official said.

President Donald Trump's transition team asked more than a dozen senior career diplomats to step down from their roles, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said, as the newly inaugurated president moves quickly to shape his foreign policy and the diplomatic corps.

It is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump’s vision," a spokesman for the Trump transition told The Washington Post.

Trump’s team requested numerous high-level resignations from the State Department as the president-elect prepares to make a break with the Biden administration.

Trump plans to suspend security clearances of former intelligence officials who wrote an infamous letter about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election.

President Trump Monday signed an executive order revoking the security clearances of 50 former U.S. offic

On his first night back in the White House, President Donald Trump issued an abundance of executive orders. Trump pardoned roughly 1500 of the January 6 defendants, offering commutations to members of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.