Trump fires Colleen J. Shogan as nation's top archivist

Donald Trump promised that he would make some major changes to America's federal government, and he's not waiting long to keep that promise.

He's doing his best to cut as much unnecessary spending as he can, and the federal government's bloated payroll has been one of the places he's starting. Joe Biden's people are out, and Trump is going to find people who want to do a great job to replace them.

Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, who took the position during Biden's tenure, has been fired.

The "archivist" is the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records.

Sergio Gor, director of the Presidential Personnel Office, made the announcement on social media.

"At the direction of @realDonaldTrump the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight," Gor wrote. "We thank Colleen Shogan for her service."

The move was not a surprise, as Trump recently told radio host Hugh Hewitt that "we will have a new archivist."

However, a senior archivist official said just the day before the firing that there was "no word that anything is changing."

"The archivist looks forward to continuing her strong working relationship with the president and first lady," the official continued.

That was pretty quickly proven to be incorrect.

The archivist of the United States, who oversees America's National Archives and Records Administration, isn't typically a role that is associated with celebrity status. However, Donald Trump has expressed distrust of the agency after what he feels was a "witch hunt" led by his political opponents surrounding his handling of classified documents.

America's National Archives and Records Administration was a key player in the now-dismissed federal case concerning Trump's alleged mishandling of classified records.

Upon leaving office in 2021, Trump allegedly took boxes of classified documents with him to his home in Florida.

For that, Trump was charged with 40 felonies.

The case was still ongoing until Trump won the presidential election in November. At that point, then-special counsel Jack Smith abandoned the government's appeal of a judge's ruling that had already ended the case, doing so pursuant to a longstanding Justice Department policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.