White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is quietly preparing to leave her post after November’s midterm elections, according to a Daily Mail report published Friday evening that cited five White House insiders.

Wiles quickly denied the report.  “To be crystal clear, I am not going anywhere,” Wiles wrote in a post on X after the story was published, adding that she is honored to serve President Trump and remains fully committed to advancing his agenda. She dismissed the report as a “piece of Friday fiction,” noting it came after what she described as a week full of accomplishments for the president.

According to the report, Wiles was vehemently opposed to the promotion of Bill Pulte from head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to acting Director of National Intelligence, and viewed it as an insult when Trump moved ahead with the appointment, with the president reportedly growing to resent her opposition. Sources also pointed to her frustration with other recent appointments, including the formal nomination of Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, as the new attorney general.

One insider told the outlet that Wiles, who has been undergoing treatment for breast cancer since a diagnosis she shared in March, is completely drained, and that Trump has been taking greater personal control of the White House. Sources said Wiles views the November midterms as a natural off-ramp.

Notably, when contacted by the Daily Mail before publication, Wiles did not deny that she plans to leave, though she rejected the claims of tension with the president. Her flat denial came only after the story went live.

Wiles, 69, has worked for Trump since his first campaign push in Florida in 2015, managed his victorious 2024 campaign, and was named chief of staff at the start of his second administration, becoming the first woman to hold the position. Trump has nicknamed her his “ice maiden” for her cool, disciplined management style.

A departure would extend a wave of senior exits from the administration in recent months. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was removed in March after a string of controversies, followed shortly by Attorney General Pam Bondi, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned soon after, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced last month that she would step down.

The last chief of staff to serve a full four-year term was Denis McDonough under President Obama.

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