As the November midterm elections is getting nearer, the exodus of the White House staffers is getting intensified, and now chief speechwriter of Vice President Kamala Harris is set to leave her role after less than four months, following a string of other departures from the office of President Joe Biden as well as other sections of the White House.
Meghan Groob, Kamala Harris’s director of speechwriting, is the latest employee expected to leave the vice president’s office, according to Politico.
Hired in April, Groob replaced Harris’s first speechwriter, who left the job at the end of February.
Meghan Groob previously worked as a speechwriter for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and as an editorial director for Gates Ventures.
Kamala Harris has faced a number of staff departures, including the exit of her longest-serving aide, Rohini Kosoglu, a domestic policy adviser.
Rohini Kosoglu, who served under Harris when she was in the Senate, said she wants to spend more time with her family.
“It’s been six years, and she understands that my family’s very much looking forward to this time, and that I will always be here should she need any trusted information or counsel,” Kosoglu told The Washington Post.
“Even through this time period, she’s been an invaluable source of support and guidance to me to come to this decision”.
Kamala Harris also reshuffled her entire communications team after several staffers departed in recent months.
Cash-makers inside the White House
Meanwhile, according to an opinion editorial in the Washington Times, the White House is “inhabited by revolving door careerists who got rich through decades of moving into a plum federal job, then out to a law firm/PR/lobbyist/consultant––and then back in again to burnish the resume. It’s called losing touch with middle America and everyday hardships”.
It questioned as to how Joe Biden, “with pride, call oppressive gasoline prices “an incredible transition?” The same way his [Biden’s] millionaire energy secretary tells hard-pressed Americans to solve their financial problems by buying a US$60,000 electric car”.
The op-ed said: “Former President Donald Trump called Washington “The Swamp.” I call it a financial fantasyland unprecedented in American annals. There is no US destination––not Wall Street, not Silicon Valley––where you can easily broker government work into a fortune, almost in an instant. You don’t need a revolutionary tech idea or financial skills or the next great assembling line. You just need to know how to manipulate the federal complex you just exited.
Let’s look at Ron Klain. As Mr. Biden’s chief of staff, he oversees all the ideas and policies emerging from the White House’s various woke factory workers who prefer windmills to life-giving fossil fuels, illegal immigrants to American citizens and “birthing people” to mothers.
At 60, he has spent over 30 years traveling through the Washington revolving door, building a net worth of up to US$12 million. He has shifted from Capitol Hill to Justice Department to the White House to a lobbyist law firm to venture capitalist to the Obama White House to the Biden campaign to the White House. Like his boss, Mr. Klain’s entire professional life is “The Swamp”.
When Mr. Biden began his presidency in a celebratory spree of throttling our energy sector, driving up the price of a barrel of oil and sparking inflation, what do you think the thinking was at the White House?
Was it middle America and its financial well-being? I doubt it. I think the dominant thought was pleasing the climate-change oligarchs who flood the left-wing and Democrats with cash.
“If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you”, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm scolded at a May 2021 White House press briefing as gas prices started their journey upward in only Mr. Biden’s fourth month.
In May, Ms. Granholm exercised stock options for Proterra, an EV bus manufacturer where she served as a director. Her profit: US$1.6 million. Forbes pegs her and her husband’s fortune at US$8 million”.
