August 23, 2018: The Trump administration experienced a 34 percent turnover rate during the president’s first year in office. That’s the highest rate for any president since at least 1980. In fact, it’s twice as high as any other president
during that time.
The two Bush administrations had the lowest first-year turnover.
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