The Wall Street Journal reported Friday evening that Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is expected to step down before the end of the year, and could go sooner. Driscoll has not said so. The Pentagon has not said so. Fifteen hours after the story went up, nobody in the administration had denied a word of it.
Driscoll denied it once already. On 7 April he told the Washington Post, on the record: "I have no plans to depart or resign as the Secretary of the Army."
His family left the Army secretary's official residence at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall earlier this summer and moved to North Carolina, according to the Journal. He lives in a smaller apartment on the base now.
Driscoll is 39. He took the job in March 2025 as the youngest Army secretary ever, then kept collecting them — acting director of the federal gun bureau a month later, and by late last year Trump's lead negotiator with the Ukrainians, including the talks in Abu Dhabi. Before all that he led a cavalry scout platoon, spent nine months in Iraq, left the Army as a first lieutenant, went to Yale Law School on the GI Bill, ran venture capital money, and lost a congressional race in North Carolina in 2020.
At Yale he met JD Vance.
