Former Biden Administration COVID-19 czar Jeff Zients will take over for Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff, the Washington Post reports citing four sources in the administration.
Zients oversaw the successful distribution of tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses during the nationwide rollout in 2021, saving the American economy while hundreds of thousands of mostly Republican-voting anti-vaxxers still died pointlessly. Zients left in April 2022 but was back in the White House in the fall, working with Klain on a number of different projects. Zients is well-regarded in the administration and comes with far more private sector than government and political experience, having served in various posts in the Obama White House between 2010 and 2017.