Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management, is quitting, and so is his staff, the Washington Post reported this morning. CNN actually reports that Trump has fired them as part of a housecleaning.

Either way, it makes sense. The Post report states that this is “part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.” But it also notes that in this case, Kennedy, a career staffer who had served in the position for nine years, had been angling to keep his job under Trump.