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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-02T13:26:25.000Z",
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    "Donald Trump",
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  "textContent": "Two more members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet could soon be on their way out.\n\nThe president is reportedly considering axing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.\n\nTrump has polled his top advisers about the duo’s fate, asking other Cabinet officials in recent weeks whether he should give them the boot.\n\nHis gripe with Gabbard relates to her decision to shield a former deputy who disagreed with Trump’s war with Iran, people briefed on the discussions told The Guardian. It’s not clear if Gabbard will actually be fired, or who could possibly replace her.\n\nMeanwhile, Bondi’s administrative future is apparently on the fritz due to her handling of the Epstein files. Trump has been “frustrated” with her leadership at the Justice Department, and is considering tapping Lee Zeldin—the current administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency—to replace her.\n\nYet Trump is still opting to publicly display his confidence in Bondi. The duo traveled to the Supreme Court together Wednesday for the court’s birthright citizenship case (something that no sitting president has ever done), and Trump chose to heap praise on Bondi’s performance when asked about the situation by _The New York Times_.\n\n“Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job,” Trump said in a statement to the Times.\n\nIn comparison to his first administration—which was practically a revolving door for the president’s underlings—Trump has been much more sparing with his staffers over the past year. Still, Bondi and Gabbard would not be the first officials from Trump’s second term to receive a pink slip from the Oval Office.\n\nTrump axed Kristi Noem from her position atop the Department of Homeland Security last month, immediately following a string of abysmal appearances before Congress. Her position among the higher echelons of the Trump administration had become increasingly tenuous in recent months due to a series of scandals, though most notably after ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, marring Trump’s immigration agenda—a chief MAGA priority—in the process.",
  "title": "Trump Eyes Two High-Profile Firings as His Struggles Mount"
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