Nicholas F. Luna

Nicholas Francisco Luna (born June 15, 1987) is an American political aide who has served as the White House deputy chief of staff for strategic implementation since 2025.

Nicholas Luna
Luna in 2025
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Implementation
Incumbent
Assumed office January 20, 2025
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Natalie Quillian
Director of Oval Office Operations
In office April 21, 2020 – January 20, 2021
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Madeleine Westerhout
Succeeded by	Annie Tomasini
Personal details
Born	Nicholas Francisco Luna (1987-06-15) June 15, 1987 (age 38)
Spouse	Cassidy Dumbauld ​ (m. 2020)​

Early life

Nicholas Francisco Luna^[1] was born on June 15,^[2] 1987.^[1]

Career

Political aide (2019–2021)

In February 2019, Luna was named as deputy assistant to the president for operations and a personal aide to the president.^[3] As a personal aide, he was photographed carrying printed materials, including newspapers, for Donald Trump.^[4]

Luna was named as assistant to the president and director of oval office operations in April.^[5] By February, Luna had been dating Cassidy Dumbauld, an assistant to Jared Kushner;^[6] they married in September.^[7] That month, he attended a gathering in the White House Rose Garden to announce Amy Coney Barrett as Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The event led to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the White House.^[7] Bloomberg News reported the following month that Luna had contracted COVID-19.^[8] Luna remained in the White House following the January 6 Capitol attack.^[9]

Post-government work (2021–2024)

In December 2020, Luna was named as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council alongside Andrew Giuliani and Mitch Webber.^[10] He was named as a co-director of CIC Ventures alongside John Marion, a Trump lawyer, in 2021; in an interview with The New York Times, Luna stated that he had not been involved in the company in over a year by December 2022.^[11]

Luna—who was present in the Oval Office when Trump pressured vice president Mike Pence to refuse to certify the 2020 presidential election—was subpoenaed by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in November 2021, in an effort by the panel to document Trump's actions on the day of the attack.^[12]

White House Deputy Chief of Staff (2025–present)

On January 4, 2025, Trump named Luna as the White House deputy chief of staff for strategic implementation.^[13]