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		</div><p>Donald Trump has said chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job by the year’s end amid an expected West Wing reshuffling.</p>
<p>It reflects a focus on the US president’s 2020 re-election campaign and the challenge of governing with Democrats reclaiming control in the House.</p>
<p>An announcement about Mr Kelly’s replacement is expected in the coming days, the president told reporters as he departed the White House for the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.</p>
<p>Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, is Mr Trump’s top choice to replace Mr Kelly and the two have held discussions for months about the job, a White House official said.</p>
<p>Mr Trump and Mr Ayers are working out specifics terms under which Mr Ayers would fill the role and the time commitment he will make, the official said.</p>
<p>Mr Trump wants his next chief of staff to agree to hold the job through the 2020 election.</p>
<p>Mr Ayers, who has young triplets, had long planned to leave the administration at the end of the year.</p>
<p>The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.</p>
<p>The announcement on Saturday comes a day after Mr Trump named his picks for attorney general and ambassador to the United Nations, and two senior aides shifted from the White House to Mr Trump’s campaign.</p>
<p>Mr Kelly had been credited with imposing order on a chaotic West Wing after his arrival in June 2017 from his post as homeland security secretary.</p>
<p>His iron first also alienated some long-time Trump allies and he grew increasingly isolated, with a greatly diminished role.</p>
<figure id="attachment_121901" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-121901" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2.40115091.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-121901" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2.40115091.jpg" alt="John Kelly, Politics, US" width="600" height="338" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-121901" class="wp-caption-text">US Chief of Staff John Kelly</figcaption></figure>
<p>Known through the West Wing as “the chief” or “the general”, the retired Marine Corps four-star general was tapped by Mr Trump via a tweet to try to normalize a White House riven by infighting and competing power bases.</p>
<p><em>“John Kelly will be leaving — I don’t know if I can say retiring — but he’s a great guy,”</em> Mr Trump told reporters.</p>
<p><em>“John Kelly will be leaving at the end of the year. We’ll be announcing who will be taking John’s place — it might be on an interim basis.</em></p>
<p><em>“I’ll be announcing that over the next day or two but John will be leaving at the end of the year … I appreciate his service very much.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Kelly had early successes, including ending an open-door Oval Office policy that that had been compared to New York’s Grand Central Station and instituting a more rigorous policy process to try to prevent staffers from going directly to Trump.</p>
<p>But those efforts also miffed the president and some of his most influential outside allies, who had grown accustomed to unimpeded access.</p>
<p>Mr Kelly’s handling of domestic violence accusations against the former White House staff secretary also caused consternation, especially among lower-level White House staffers, who believed he had lied to them about when he found out about the allegations.</p>
<p>In any administration, the role of White House chief of staff is split between the responsibilities of supervising the White House and managing the man sitting in the Oval Office.</p>
<p>White House aides say Mr Trump has developed confidence in Mr Ayers, in part by watching the effectiveness of Mr Pence’s largely independent political operation.</p>
<p>Mr Ayers also earned the backing of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president’s daughter and son-in-law and senior advisers, for taking on the new role, White House officials said.</p>
<p>The Georgia native’s meteoric rise in GOP politics included a successful stint at the Republican Governors Association, time as campaign manager for former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s failed White House bid and consultant work for dozens of high-profile Republicans, including Mr Pence.</p>
<p>Mr Ayers, 36, would be the youngest chief of staff since 34-year-old Hamilton Jordan served under Jimmy Carter. Mr Kelly is 68.</p>
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