Late Sunday, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the President, announced she will be departing the White House at the end of the month, citing distance learning challenges with her children.
“Our four children are teens and ‘tweens starting a new academic year, in middle school and high school, remotely from home for at least a few months. As millions of parents nationwide know, kids ‘doing school from home’ requires a level of attention and vigilance that is as unusual as these times,” writes Conway.
Conway noted that her husband will be withdrawing from the vicious anti-Trump group the “Lincoln Project” as well to devote time to the kids. “I will be transitioning from the White House at the end of this month. George is also making changes. We disagree about plenty but we are united on what matters most: the kids,” Conway says.
The news comes after Conway’s daughter, Claudia, has been bashing her mother on Twitter, even claiming she’ seeking “emancipation” from her.
In her announcement, Kellyanne Conway thanked the President and the White House staff for her time there:
The past four years have allowed me blessings beyond compare as a part of history on election Night 2016 and as Senior Counselor to the President. It’s been heady. It’s been humbling.
I am deeply grateful to the President for this honor, and to the First Lady, the VicePresident and Mrs. Pence, my colleagues in the White House and the Administration, and the countless people who supported me and my work. As many convention speakers will demonstrate this week, President Trump’s leadership has had a measurable, positive impact on the peace and prosperity of the nation, and on millions of Americans who feel forgotten no more.
The incredible men, women, and children we’ve met along the way have reaffirmed my later-in-life experience that public service can be meaningful and consequential. For all of its political differences and cultural cleavages, this is a beautiful country filled with amazing people. The promise of America belongs to us all.