P.M. Edition for May 1. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will fill the role on an interim basis. President Trump announced that he will nominate Waltz—the first top official to lose his job in Trump’s second term—as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. White House reporter Meridith McGraw discusses the significance of the staffing shuffle. And aviation reporter Andrew Tangel has the details on Trump’s decision to commission an interim presidential plane by year’s end, frustrated with Boeing’s delay to deliver a new Air Force One. Plus, a U.S. federal judge deems the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to allow deportations unlawful. Pierre Bienaimé hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What led to the dismissal of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz?
That was Wall Street Journal aviation reporter Andrew Tangle. Andrew, thank you.
Thank you.
Chief executives are leaving their posts at a record pace this year. According to Challenger Gray and Christmas, which tracks executive departures, among U.S. businesses with at least 25 employees, over 2,200 CEOs bid farewell last year. And more than 370 public company chiefs exited, roughly a quarter more than did in 2023.
WSJ columnist Callum Borchers told our Your Money Briefing podcast that some of the middle managers who would have once been ushered up the career ladder to take the place of exiting CEOs are instead stalling out or calling it quits themselves.
It's one thing for the CEO who's already done it to go retreat to the beach, right? But it's another. thing for the potential successors to go and do it early, but some are. I met a financial manager in his 40s named Ryan Beyer, for example. He's moved his family to Puerto Rico. He was a principal at a wealth management firm in the DC area.
He's the type of rising star who could be in the leadership pipeline, but he took a buyout, left early. He's not retired. He's advising high net worth family offices. He says, look, I earned less than I used to, but I'm fine with that because I'm available for my kids' school pickups and drop-offs. I never miss a baseball game.
And we're seeing more of these millennial and younger Gen Xers dialing back their professional ambitions a little bit in the name of work-life balance. You can listen to the full story on tomorrow's episode of Your Money Briefing.
And Kohl's has fired its CEO, Ashley Buchanan, after a board investigation discovered he had instructed the company to enter into a highly unusual business deal involving a woman with whom he has had a romantic relationship. That's according to people familiar with the situation.
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Chapter 2: What role will Secretary of State Marco Rubio play as interim National Security Advisor?
According to a regulatory filing, Buchanan caused the retailer to enter into a multi-million dollar consulting agreement with a woman who was part of the consulting team. Buchanan declined to comment. And that's what's news for this Thursday afternoon. Today's show was produced by Anthony Bansi with supervising producer Michael Kosmides. I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.
We'll be back with a new show tomorrow morning. Thanks for listening.
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