The Trump administration is reportedly hiring former Fox News commentator Monica Crowley as a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department.
Crowley will join the staff of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as assistant secretary for public affairs. She will replace departing spokesman Tony Sayegh, who is set to leave the agency in May.
Crowley was slated to join the administration in 2016 as a senior communications aide to former national security adviser Michael Flynn, but she decided not to take the job after coming under fire for plagiarizing part of her book and her Ph.D. thesis.
Crowley joined Fox News when the organization began in 1996, and worked there on and off until 2017, when she ended her contact with the intention of jumping to the White House.
Crowley will not be the first former Fox News contributor to join the Trump administration. Others have included national security adviser John Bolton, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp, and, for a few days, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci.
