# Trump 47 Appointees Who Quit or Were Fired

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
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**Created:** [March 3, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-47-appointees-who-quit-or-were-fired/1015082 "2025-03-03T23:07:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-47-appointees-who-quit-or-were-fired/1015082/1 "2025-03-03T23:07:43Z")

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This may be the first of many:

[Politiico: Top HHS spokesperson quits after clashing with RFK Jr.](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/03/top-hhs-spokesperson-quits-00207000)

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> The top spokesperson at the Health and Human Services Department has abruptly quit after clashing with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his close aides over their management of the agency amid a growing measles outbreak, two people familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
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> Thomas Corry announced on Monday that he had resigned “effective immediately,” just two weeks after joining the department as its assistant secretary for public affairs… . .
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> Corry had also grown uneasy with Kennedy’s muted response to the intensifying outbreak of measles in Texas, the people said. The outbreak has infected at least 146 people and resulted in the nation’s first death from the disease in a decade. . . .
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> Corry was “the one adult in the room that I saw unfortunately,” said a third person familiar with the matter, an HHS employee, who was granted anonymity to describe the internal dynamics.

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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-47-appointees-who-quit-or-were-fired/1015082/2 "2025-03-04T02:22:35Z")

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> [@PhillyGuy](#):
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> Thomas Corry announced on Monday that he had resigned “effective immediately,” just two weeks after joining

How the fuck did he just join two weeks ago, and not know that Mr. Brain Worm would be exactly this kind of problem?!?