<p>The recently elected leadership of the Republican National Committee (RNC), backed by former President Donald Trump, has begun the process of pushing out 60 officials at the organization, according to a source familiar with the situation.</p><p>RNC members voted last week to appoint North Carolina Republican Party head Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, Trump's daughter-in-law, as chair and co-chair of the organization that will play a key role in marshaling voters and funds for the Nov 5 general elections.</p><p>The 60 positions are being eliminated to ensure the RNC and Trump's campaign are streamlined and to avoid duplication, according to the source.</p>.Trump asks to delay hush money trial until US Supreme Court reviews immunity claim. <p>Politico reported the news earlier and said that staffers would be let go in the political, communications and data departments.</p><p>The Republican National Committee appeared to have at least 208 people on its payroll in January, according to the group's Feb. 20 monthly filing with the Federal Election Commission.</p><p>Not since President Ronald Reagan's daughter Maureen Reagan was RNC co-chair in the 1980s has a family member of a president or nominee served in such a position of power.</p><p>One of the new leadership's most pressing tasks is money.</p><p>After recording its lowest fundraising year in 2023 in a decade, the RNC had less than $9 million in the bank at the end of January, a little more than a third of the Democratic National Committee's $24 million, federal filings show. </p>
<p>The recently elected leadership of the Republican National Committee (RNC), backed by former President Donald Trump, has begun the process of pushing out 60 officials at the organization, according to a source familiar with the situation.</p><p>RNC members voted last week to appoint North Carolina Republican Party head Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, Trump's daughter-in-law, as chair and co-chair of the organization that will play a key role in marshaling voters and funds for the Nov 5 general elections.</p><p>The 60 positions are being eliminated to ensure the RNC and Trump's campaign are streamlined and to avoid duplication, according to the source.</p>.Trump asks to delay hush money trial until US Supreme Court reviews immunity claim. <p>Politico reported the news earlier and said that staffers would be let go in the political, communications and data departments.</p><p>The Republican National Committee appeared to have at least 208 people on its payroll in January, according to the group's Feb. 20 monthly filing with the Federal Election Commission.</p><p>Not since President Ronald Reagan's daughter Maureen Reagan was RNC co-chair in the 1980s has a family member of a president or nominee served in such a position of power.</p><p>One of the new leadership's most pressing tasks is money.</p><p>After recording its lowest fundraising year in 2023 in a decade, the RNC had less than $9 million in the bank at the end of January, a little more than a third of the Democratic National Committee's $24 million, federal filings show. </p>