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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, is stepping down at the end of the month, according to a tweet from Donald Trump.
"After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas," tweeted the president.
Sanders, who succeeded Sean Spicer in 2017, will be remembered for killing the daily press briefing for reporters and for ardent defense of Trump.
Special counsel Robert Mueller cited Sanders for making false statements in public defending Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey.
She claimed "countless" agents had told her that they lost confidence in Comey's leadership. Sanders later told Mueller's team that her bogus statement was a "slip of the tongue."
Her father, Mike, was governor of "The Natural State."
Erik Hotmire has rejoined the Securities and Exchange Commission as chief external affairs officer and director of the Office of Public Affairs.
California seeks a firm to handle a $3.5M marketing/ad program to promote awareness of, and increase sign-ups in, its job corps program. 
The National Highway Safety Administration has awarded its public education to Stratacomm following a competitive re-compete process.
Congress wants the FTC to probe whether TikTok violated child privacy laws when it launched a last-ditch lobbying blitz to defeat the bill requiring its owner, ByteDance, to divest it.
Jeffrey Nesbit, who served as communications director for former vice president Dan Quayle, is named assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
