President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records.
Sergio Gor, director of the Presidential Personnel Office, announced Shogan’s dismissal Friday night. Shogan has held the job since 2023.
“At the direction of @realDonaldTrump the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight,” Gor wrote on X. “We thank Colleen Shogan for her service.”
Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan speaks at her swearing-In ceremony at the National Archives on Sept. 11, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Alex Brandon / AP
The move isn’t unexpected. Mr. Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier this month that “we will have a new archivist.”
On Thursday, however, a senior archivist official told CBS News there was “no word that anything is changing.”
“The archivist looks forward to continuing her strong working relationship with the president and first lady,” the official said at the time.
The archivist of the United States, who oversees the National Archives and Records Administration, is typically an apolitical role that receives little attention. But Mr. Trump has expressed ire toward the agency in the past, after it was a key player in the case about