***BREAKING***
Katie Walsh resigned from her position on March 30, 2017, becoming an adviser to a pro-Trump nonprofit, America First, and the RNC.[11]
They’ll say this exit is because of the TrumpCare fail, which may be the catalyst, but it is symptomatic of Bannon/Priebus infighting.
There’s trouble in paradise, and some did think Walsh was a leaker. It seems unlikely that she has a pink knit cap at home. Former #NeverTrumpers probably always are suspect to a Trumpian inner circle, who somehow believe that she leaked Steele dossier info from John McCain. And then there’s the more scurrilous and lurid rumor about the Trumpian mouse at play while the cat’s away, which only appeared after the leak rumors started. And then there’s her friendship with NYTimes reporter Maggie Haberman.
More interesting will be whether she gets an immunity deal down the road as #TrumpRussia continues...
Deputy White House chief of staff Katie Walsh rocketed to the top and is now the woman who holds down the fort in the White House. (Breitbart February 2017)
Walsh was named White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Implementation in the administration of Donald Trump. She oversees senior staff and manages scheduling and the Office of Public Liaison.[1]
Walsh reportedly has guarded access to the Oval Office on behalf of Trump administration chief of Staff Reince Priebus. In February 2017, as Trump called homeland security advisor Tom Bossert into the office, Walsh "spotted him entering the Oval Office and sprinted down the hallway to alert her boss, Mr. Priebus," The Wall Street Journal reported."[10]
Walsh was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team. The transition team was a group of around 100 aides, policy experts, government affairs officials, and former government officials who were tasked with vetting, interviewing, and recommending individuals for top cabinet and staff roles in Trump's administration. She was part of the Leadership staff.[9]
Walsh’s departure to the outside group came the same day that Trump himself tweeted threateningly about going after the House Freedom Caucus in 2018. “We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!” Trump wrote.
But the more immediate question looming over the faction-ridden White House was whether Walsh was the beginning or end of changes in the West Wing.
Priebus, chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior aide Jared Kushner briefed a small group of reporters about the move on Thursday afternoon and insisted it was less of a shake-up and more of a rebooting of an outside effort that they believe had stumbled.