Joe Kasper will continue to support and advise the Pentagon, he said, but as a special government employee.

A former longtime chief of staff to indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter, Kasper was a leading figure in the firings of senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. The trio were ousted last week in a leak investigation.

Some officials saw the wave of firings as a bid by Kasper to consolidate power.

“Kasper did not like that those guys had the secretary’s ear,” a person familiar with the dynamic said. “He did not like that they had walk-in and hanging-out privileges in the office. He wanted them out. It was a knife fight.”

It’s a dog-eat-dog world!

Controversial Hegseth chief of staff to leave Pentagon

Joe Kasper will continue to support and advise the Pentagon, he said, but as a special government employee.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721