The White House Deputy Chief of Staff is officially the top aide to the White House chief of staff, who is the senior aide to the president of the United States. The deputy chief of staff usually has an office in the West Wing and is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the White House bureaucracy, as well as such other duties as the chief of staff assigns to them. In all recent administrations, there have been multiple deputy chiefs with different duties. In the Biden administration, there are three current deputy chiefs of staff: At least six deputy chiefs of staff were subsequently promoted to become chief of staff: Dick Cheney, Ken Duberstein, Andrew Card, Erskine Bowles, John Podesta, and Joshua Bolten.

List of White House Deputy Chiefs of Staff

Ford, Carter, Reagan & H.W. Bush Administrations

Clinton Administration

George W. Bush Administration

Obama Administration

First Trump Administration (2017–2021)

Biden Administration

Second Trump Administration (2025–2029)

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