Latest Moves
October 2020: Trump Administration Nominated Liddell To Serve As Secretary General For Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development (OECD). [State Department press release, 10/20/20]
Recent News
Liddell Was On List Of Attendees For Meeting Where Cabinet Officials Voted To Proceed With Family Separations. “According to an invitation list obtained by NBC News, those expected to be in attendance at the meeting included: Sessions, Nielsen, Miller, Pompeo, Azar, Undersecretary of Defense John Rood, then-White House chief of staff John Kelly, White House deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell, then-White House counsel Don McGahn and Marc Short, who was then director of legislative affairs and is now chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence.” [NBC News, 8/20/20]
Headline: NBC News: “Trump Cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say officials.” [NBC News, 8/20/20]
Politico: Liddell “Worked Closely On The Family Separation Issue” In Summer 2018. “This month’s internal policy debate over migrants at the border was particularly demoralizing for many in the administration. Trump’s demand that his team quickly write an executive order ending family separations at the border prompted governmentwide confusion. A few White House officials were annoyed that Liddell was on a brief, planned trip to New Zealand during the height of the blowback about the executive order. A person familiar with Liddell’s plans said he was gone for only a few days and worked closely on the family separation issue throughout the week. Liddell, for his part, played down the idea that the immigration executive order was unnecessarily messy. “Sometimes lack of linearity is just the nature of making a quick decision,” he said. “This is a high-velocity White House.”” [Politico, 7/3/18]
