White House Weighs Replacing Tillerson With Pompeo
- CIA Director Mike Pompeo may replace secretary of State
- Trump has said Tillerson may leave by the end of the year
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The White House is weighing a plan to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, three administration officials said, amid frustration with the top diplomat’s slow pace of hiring and repeated clashes with President Donald Trump.
Trump’s staff have been debating the shakeup since at least September, according to one of the officials. Relations between White House staff and Tillerson’s inner circle have been broken since summer, when the two sides all but stopped talking, the official said.