One of Rubio's top aides receives new White House position
Kyiv • UNN
Mike Needham is leaving the State Department for the position of Deputy National Security Advisor. Dan Holler will take his place in the Policy Planning Office.
One of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's top aides is moving to the White House to a position he has unofficially held since Rubio became President Donald Trump's national security advisor last year, UNN reports, citing AP.
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U.S. officials said Tuesday that Mike Needham will leave his post as director of policy planning at the State Department to work full-time at the White House as deputy national security advisor.
Needham, a veteran of the conservative Heritage Foundation who served as Rubio's chief of staff at the start of Trump's second term before moving to the policy planning department, has already spent significant time at the White House with Rubio.
Dan Holler, Rubio's current chief of staff, will take over the policy planning position at the State Department, government officials said.