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Biden White House boasts biggest staff since Nixon, has 77 percent turnover
435 of Biden's initial 560 employees have since departed the White House
Published July 6, 2024 1:05pm EDTPresident Biden's White House staff is the largest since former President Richard Nixon's and has seen a turnover rate of 77% since he took office in 2021.
The White House boasts 565 staffers at a price tag of nearly $61 million, a slight increase from the record-setting 560 staffers Biden had his first year in office, according to a report from Open the Books.
Biden is the first president to boast over 500 staffers since Nixon, the report noted, a staff that was so big that Time magazine declared in 1971 that it was growing with "startling rapidity."
Biden White House boasts biggest staff since Nixon, has 77 percent turnover
President Biden's staff of 565 and payroll of $60.8 million are larger and more expensive staff than those seen under former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama.

