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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Zachary Fuentes reportedly told colleagues that he would hide out in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, above, in Washington, D.C., for six months until he could retire early.
One White House aid reportedly tried to hide out in Washington, D.C., for six months until he could qualify for a Coast Guard early retirement program. But then the program was pulled from Congress and canceled.
Zachary Fuentes, the White House deputy chief of staff, told colleagues that after his boss and mentor John Kelly left the Trump administration at the end of 2018, he planned to retreat from his role and wait until he could qualify for an early retirement program, all while remaining on the payroll, according to a report by The New York Times.
Fuentes, an active-duty officer in the Coast Guard, would only need to hide out until July in order to complete 15 years of service in the military and qualify for early retirement. The 36-year-old White House staffer told co-workers that he would find refuge in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building located near the White House.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/white-house-staffer-tried-hide-out-six-months-1268313%3famp=1
madaboutharry
(40,190 posts)I bet hes sorry he didnt just look for another job. Now everyone knows hes a jerk.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Still, it sounds a bit grifty, esp. cause he also talked to high-ups in Homeland Security and asked for their help with lobbying Congress to re-instate this particular 15-year service retirement program, which had apparently recently expired as a 'thing'.
smb
(3,471 posts)The Dotard would have never found him there.
BigmanPigman
(51,569 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)a kennedy
(29,618 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)rockfordfile
(8,699 posts)UTUSN
(70,649 posts)dlk
(11,514 posts)Initech
(100,043 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,533 posts)This is like a bad episode of "Twilight Zone" when they tried to remake it. We live in bizarro world.