A senior adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has left the Defense Department after less than three months of service in the top role.

Justin Fulcher, who previously worked for the Department of Government Efficiency before being tapped to serve in the Pentagon in late April, said his departure was “planned” after exactly six months of work in the Trump administration.

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