List of Donald Trump nominees who have withdrawn

The Trump administration proposed a number of nominees to appointed positions who were rejected by the Senate or withdrew voluntarily.^[1]^[2]

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Office	Nominee	Experience	Announced	Withdrawn
White House Director of Communications	Jason Miller	Vice-President at Jamestown Associates	December 22, 2016^[3]	December 24, 2016^[4]^[5]
Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council	Monica Crowley	Political commentator	December 15, 2016^[6]	January 16, 2017^[7]
Chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality	Kathleen Hartnett White^[8]	Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation	October 12, 2017	February 5, 2018
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy	Tom Marino	Representative from Pennsylvania	September 5, 2017	October 17, 2017^[9]

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Todd Ricketts	November 30, 2016^[12]	April 19, 2017^[13]
Under Secretary of Commerce (Oceans and Atmosphere)	Barry Lee Myers	October 12, 2017^[14]	November 20, 2019^[15]
Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Export Enforcement)	Jeffrey Nadaner	February 5, 2018^[16]	June 12, 2019^[17]

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Secretary of Defense	Patrick M. Shanahan	May 9, 2019^[18]	June 18, 2019^[19]
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs	Dean Winslow^[20]	September 2017	January 2018
General Counsel of the Air Force	David Ehrhart	June 23, 2017	September 29, 2017^[21]^[22]
Secretary of the Army	Vincent Viola	December 19, 2016^[23]	February 3, 2017^[24]
Secretary of the Army	Mark E. Green	April 7, 2017^[25]	May 5, 2017^[26]
General Counsel of the Army	Ryan Dean Newman	March 21, 2017	September 29, 2017^[21]^[22]
Secretary of the Navy	Philip Bilden	January 25, 2017^[27]	February 26, 2017^[28]^[29]
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)	Elaine McCusker	November 6, 2019	March 2, 2020^[30]
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness	Anthony Kurta	July 19, 2017	September 28, 2018^[31]
	J. David Patterson	January 6, 2020^[32]	February 12, 2020^[33]
Under Secretary of the Air Force	Shon J. Manasco	April 24, 2020^[34]	December 30, 2020^[35]

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Director of the Indian Health Service	Robert M. Weaver	October 6, 2017	February 21, 2018^[38]
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	David Weldon	November 2024	March 2025^[39]
Surgeon General	Janette Nesheiwat	November 2024	May 2025^[40]

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Secretary of Homeland Security	Chad Wolf	August 25, 2020^[41]	January 6, 2021^[42]
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Partnership & Engagement)	David Clarke	May 17, 2017^[43]	June 17, 2017^[44]
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency	Jeffrey Byard	May 13, 2019	September 19, 2019^[45]
Deputy Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency	Daniel Alan Craig	July 25, 2017	September 13, 2017^[46]
Chief Financial Officer of Homeland Security	Charles E. Cook III	February 2, 2018^[47]	June 7, 2018^[48]
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement	Thomas Homan	November 14, 2017	May 15, 2018^[49]
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement	Ronald Vitiello	August 6, 2018 ^[50]	April 4, 2019

List of Donald Trump nominees who have withdrawn

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Department of Labor

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Department of Veterans Affairs

Central Intelligence Agency

Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Independent agencies

Federal judges

See also

References

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Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Associate Attorney General	Jessie K. Liu	March 5, 2019^[57]	March 28, 2019^[58]
Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives	Chuck Canterbury	May 24, 2019^[59]	May 19, 2020^[60]
Attorney General	Matt Gaetz	November, 2024	November 21, 2024^[61]
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia	Ed Martin	January, 2025 (appointed Interim U.S. Attorney)^[62]	May 8, 2025^[62]

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Under Secretary of State (Management)	Eric Ueland	June 9, 2017^[67]	June 18, 2018^[68]
Under Secretary of State (Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights)	Eric Ueland	July 29, 2020^[69]	December 30, 2020^[35]
Director General of the United States Foreign Service	Stephen Akard^[70]^[71]	October 10, 2017^[72]	March 20, 2018^[73] and nominated instead for Director of the Office of Foreign Missions
Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs)	Susan Thornton	December 19, 2017^[74]	August 16, 2018^[75]
Assistant Secretary of State (South and Central Asian Affairs)	Robert Williams	December 12, 2018	April 11, 2019^[76]
Ambassador to Australia	Harry B. Harris Jr.	February 9, 2018	May 23, 2018^[77] and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to South Korea^[78]
Ambassador to the Bahamas	Doug Manchester	May 15, 2017^[79]	November 13, 2019^[80]
Ambassador to Belgium	Jamie McCourt	June 22, 2017^[81]	August 2, 2017^[82] and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to France^[83]
Ambassador to Chile	Andrew Gellert	January 4, 2018^[84]	August 16, 2018
Ambassador to Estonia	Edward Masso	September 2, 2017^[85]	May 24, 2018^[86]
Ambassador to Singapore	K. T. McFarland^[87]^[88]^[89]	May 19, 2017	January 2018^[90]
Ambassador to South Korea	Victor Cha^[91]	December 2017	January 2018
Ambassador to the United Nations	Heather Nauert	December 2018	February 2019^[92]
Representative of the United States on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations	Jennifer Barber	December 9, 2019^[93]	September 8, 2020^[54]
Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly	Jennifer Barber	December 9, 2019^[93]	September 8, 2020^[54]
Alternate Representative of the United States to the United Nations (Special Political Affairs)	Austin M. Smith	August 2018^[94]	Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2019, replaced by nomination of Alex Wong in February 2020^[95]
Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly	Austin M. Smith	August 2018^[94]
Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development	Pamela Bates	September 2018^[96]	Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2020, replaced by nomination of Manisha Singh in April 2020^[97]
Ambassador to the United Nations	Elise Stefanik	November 11, 2024	March 27, 2025^[98]

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Director of the Office of Personnel Management	George Nesterczuk	May 24, 2017^[113]	August 2, 2017^[114]
President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States	Scott Garrett^[115]	Rejected by Senate Banking Committee vote
First Vice President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States	Kimberly A. Reed	September 15, 2017	June 20, 2018, and nominated instead for President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Africa)	Johnathan Miller^[116]	January 12, 2018	March 20, 2018
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance)	Mark Montgomery^[117]^[118]	June 20, 2018	November 15, 2018^[119]
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Asia)	Mina Chang^[120]	September 13, 2018	September 9, 2019^[121]^[122]
Member of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service	Calvin R. Tucker	October 26, 2017^[123]	March 5, 2019^[124]
Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board	Andrew Maunz^[125]	March 5, 2018^[126]	February 12, 2019^[127]
Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission	Ann Marie Buerkle^[128]	July 24, 2017	June 18, 2019^[129]
Inspector General of the Tennessee Valley Authority	Katherine A. Crytzer	April 3, 2020^[130]	September 22, 2020, and nominated instead for District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee^[131]