Psaki ‘Happy To Stay on Longer’ Than a Year As WH Press Secretary: Report

🏛️White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki may not be leaving her position after a year on the job, according to a report.

According to Politico’s West Wing Playbook, Psaki “told colleagues that she is now happy to stay on longer and won’t just walk out the door at her one-year mark, meaning that would-be successors may have to wait much longer than they expected.”

The report also notes that there are no “real discussions” about a successor yet, citing a source familiar “with the internal machinations.”

This comes after Psaki shared during “The Axe Files” podcast interview in early May that she had talked with the Biden transition team about a roughly one-year term, as IJR reported on.

“I think it’s going to be time for somebody else to have this job, in a year from now or about a year from now,” she said at the time.

Psaki served as the communications director during the Obama administration.

During Wednesday’s press briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy press secretary, became the first Black woman to brief the White House