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White House Budget Director to Resign Soon

White House budget director, Mitch Daniels, will leave his position within the next 30 days, the White House announced Tuesday.

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White House budget director, Mitch Daniels, will leave his position within the next 30 days, the White House announced Tuesday.

When announcing the sudden news at a regular briefing on Tuesday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters that the president tremendously appreciate Mitch's service to the country and that the president views Mitch as a very strong manager, a very able leader, and a wise steward of tax dollars.

Daniels resigned to open the way for an expected run for Indiana governor, a media report quoted White House aides as saying.

An intriguing point is that Daniel's resignation will mark the complete change of President Bush's economic team over the passed half a year.

President Bush, who was reportedly still having clear-cut corporate executive style, sacked his economic team members one after another during the passed months, in an aim to have a new effective team at a time when the US economy seemed to be reluctant to return to a stronger footing.

But not all the team members were forced off the jobs. Former Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Robert Glenn Hubbard, who was a strong supporter of Bush's tax-cutting plan, left for the family reason. He would like to have more time with families, reports said.

Daniels, the last one of the old team, has also been supportiveto Bush's tax-cutting plan. As he is the budget director of the White House, Daniels' positive remark about the tax plan in publicoccasions, in a way, could be very convincing.

The sudden announcement of Daniel's resignation resulted more concerns about the fate of Bush's tax plan at Capital Hill, especially when the plan seemed to be having a hard time in debates among lawmakers.

But White House Spokesman Fleischer assured reporters at Tuesday's briefing that "during these next 30 days Mitch will continue to do his work to help the president make progress on hiseconomic plan."

"The House and the Senate are both moving this week on the economic plan. And I anticipate it very well may be done, thanks to the help of Mitch Daniels," said Fleischer.

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