The White Home on Friday introduced that President Biden’s communications director Kate Bedingfield, who has been with the president since his 2021 inauguration, will step down on the finish of this month.

Bedingfield shall be succeeded by Ben LaBolt, a former adviser to President Barack Obama and present strategist for the communications company Bully Pulpit Interactive.  

Previous to serving as White Home communications director, Bedingfield labored as then-Vice President Biden’s communications director in 2015-2016, after which discovered a job on his profitable 2020 presidential marketing campaign as deputy marketing campaign supervisor. 

It is the second time Bedingfield was anticipated to depart. She determined to not go away the White Home final summer season after signaling that she would.

Earlier than working for Biden, Bedingfield served within the Obama White Home as affiliate communications director, deputy director of media affairs, and director of speedy response. 

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White Home director of communications Kate Bedingfield speaks throughout a briefing within the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 2022. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

She was additionally the vp of communications for the Movement Image Affiliation of America, vp of communications at Monumental Sports activities and Leisure and the director of communications for New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s profitable marketing campaign for Senate in 2008. 

Bedingfield, a Georgia native and College of Virginia alumna, is subsequent anticipated to tackle a brand new strategic function with Biden’s as-of-yet undeclared re-election marketing campaign.

“Since my time as Vice President, Kate has been a loyal and trusted adviser, via thick and skinny,” President Biden stated in an announcement. “She was a vital strategic voice from the very first day of my presidential marketing campaign in 2019 and has been a key a part of advancing my agenda within the White Home. The nation is healthier off on account of her exhausting work and I’m so grateful to her — and to her husband and two younger youngsters — for giving a lot. Ben has massive footwear to fill.” 

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From left: Former White Home chief of employees Ron Klain, former White Home press secretary Jen Psaki and now-exiting White Home communications director Kate Bedingfield anticipate President Biden to ship remarks on the COVID-19 response and vaccination program within the Rose Backyard of the White Home in Washington, D.C., on Could 13, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Pictures)

Bedingfield’s successor, LaBolt, beforehand served as head of communications for the affirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court docket and suggested the president’s transition crew on nominations. 

LaBolt is a veteran of three presidential campaigns, together with working as a senior nationwide spokesman for the 2008 Obama-Biden marketing campaign and the Obama-Biden nationwide press secretary in 2012. He has additionally labored in communications for numerous members of Congress, together with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Sick.; and then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Sick. 

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White Home director of communications Kate Bedingfield speaks throughout a briefing within the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 2022. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

“I sit up for welcoming him again as a first-rate communicator who’s proven his dedication to public service many times, and who has a cutting-edge understanding of how Individuals eat info,” Biden stated. “I noticed him battle for Justice Jackson, and he put his all into serving to us make historical past confirming our cupboard and subcabinet nominees. I’m proud to have him rejoin this crew.”

In a number of tweets, LaBolt stated he’s “extraordinarily grateful for the chance” and “honored” to serve Biden. He would be the first brazenly homosexual man to occupy the place of White Home chief of employees. 

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“This can be a tipping level second for the nation — for our values and rights, our democracy, and for the center class. I’m able to go well with up and assist the President and crew, which incorporates many longtime pals and colleagues, end the job. I’ll give it my all,” LaBolt stated. 

The announcement comes amid a shakeup of senior White Home employees following the 2022 midterm elections, together with the departure of Biden’s first chief of employees, Ron Klain. Jeff Zients was tapped to interchange Klain, and it is attainable extra staffing modifications are imminent.