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Senator Richard Blumenthal is pressing the Pentagon over reports of food shortages, broken plumbing and mental health crises on a carrier that has been at sea for more than 250 days without a port call in over 200.
President Trump announced her departure on social media, saying the youngest press secretary in US history is leaving at the end of August to spend more time with her two young children.
The president said Iran owes payments for U.S. sailors killed in the 2000 USS Cole bombing and other attacks, after Tehran demanded compensation of its own as a condition for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Scharf, currently the White House staff secretary, chaired the federal panel that approved President Trump's $400 million ballroom project before a court ordered construction halted.
