{"id":104690,"date":"2024-03-12T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/new-rnc-leadership-slashing-staff-sources-say\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:04:29","slug":"new-rnc-leadership-slashing-staff-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/new-rnc-leadership-slashing-staff-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"New RNC leadership slashing staff, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-12\/GETTY_71224_LaraTrumpRNC.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of former US President Donald Trump, speaks at the Republican National Committee (RNC) Spring meeting on March 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas. (CECILE CLOCHERET\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A new Donald Trump-backed Republican National Committee leadership team has started the process of cleaning house among national party personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Staff is being cut in political and data departments along with senior positions, with no fundraising positions expected to be reduced, sources tell ABC News. In addition, a source with direct knowledge said the RNC is cutting off contracts with some vendors.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is part of efforts to merge the Trump presidential campaign with the RNC to effectively make them the same operation.<\/p>\n<p>Around 60 RNC staffers are being let go under the merger, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Another source familiar with the changes occurring at the Republican National Committee under the new Trump-aligned leadership told ABC News certain staffers are being asked to resign and reapply for positions at the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Chair Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump were voted into their new roles on Friday at an RNC meeting in Houston where now-former Chair Ronna McDaniel and former Co-Chair Drew McKissick stepped down.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, both Whatley and Lara Trump vowed to trim some fat at the RNC, an organization that has long suffered from fundraising lulls and controversy surrounding spending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The RNC will work hand in glove with President Trump to campaign President Trump&#8217;s campaign to deliver on these core missions. If $1 that we have is not directed towards winning this November, that dollar will not be spent,&#8221; Whatley said at the party&#8217;s spring training meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the RNC staff cuts was first reported by Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of former US President Donald Trump, speaks at the Republican National Committee (RNC) Spring meeting on March 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas. (CECILE CLOCHERET\/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) &#8212; A new Donald Trump-backed Republican National Committee leadership team has started the process of cleaning house among national<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/new-rnc-leadership-slashing-staff-sources-say\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}