{"id":10783,"date":"2025-08-04T00:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/longtime-trump-insider-may-davis-mailman-departs-white-house\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T00:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:46:36","slug":"longtime-trump-insider-may-davis-mailman-departs-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/longtime-trump-insider-may-davis-mailman-departs-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Trump insider May Davis Mailman departs White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-0\">\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>Longtime Trump insider May Davis Mailman has departed the White House, sources told CBS News, making her the highest-ranking official to leave so far during the second term without being pushed out.<\/p>\n<p>Mailman&#8217;s last day as deputy assistant to the president and senior policy strategist was Friday, one of the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Mailman will become a special government employee to tie up loose ends on some of the policy work she&#8217;s been involved with, two of the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>She has told colleagues she is starting a government affairs firm, but has said she won&#8217;t take on clients related to a limited number of administration projects, which include\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-harvard-foreign-students-exchange-visitor-program-visa-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">negotiations with Harvard University<\/a><\/span> over frozen federal research funding.<\/p>\n<p>Mailman, who worked all four years of President Trump&#8217;s first term \u2014 with stints in the staff secretary&#8217;s office, the chief of staff&#8217;s office and the White House counsel&#8217;s office \u2014 was considered a seasoned hand for helping start up the inner workings of the second White House, two sources said.<\/p>\n<p>She is known for being close to Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/jennifer-jacobs\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jennifer  Jacobs<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Jennifer Jacobs is a senior White House reporter at CBS News.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Trump insider May Davis Mailman has departed the White House, sources told CBS News, making her the highest-ranking official to leave so far during the second term without being pushed out. Mailman&#8217;s last day as deputy assistant to the president and senior policy strategist was Friday, one of the sources said.\u00a0 But Mailman will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-political-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10785,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions\/10785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}