{"id":9866,"date":"2025-06-03T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fettermans-chief-of-staff-leaves-amid-string-of-departures\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:17:38","slug":"fettermans-chief-of-staff-leaves-amid-string-of-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fettermans-chief-of-staff-leaves-amid-string-of-departures\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman’s chief of staff leaves amid string of departures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman\u2019s chief of staff is leaving her post, two people familiar with the matter confirmed to Blue Light News on Tuesday. The move is yet another key departure for a congressional office that\u2019s been marked by turnover amid mounting questions about the Democrat’s health and shifting political persona.<\/p>\n

Axios first reported<\/u><\/a> Krysta Sinclair Juris\u2019 plans to part ways with Fetterman\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Blue Light News has learned Cabelle St. John, who previously served as Fetterman\u2019s deputy chief of staff, senior adviser and scheduling director, is taking over as his new top aide.<\/p>\n

\u201cCabelle St. John has been a trusted advisor since day 1 in the office. I\u2019m lucky to have her taking over as my Chief of Staff and I\u2019m confident she\u2019ll do a great job,\u201d Fetterman said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019m grateful for Krysta\u2019s work. She\u2019s been an invaluable member of the team for over two years and I wish her all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the last year and a half, the senator\u2019s former chief of staff, Adam Jentleson, top communications aides and legislative director all left his team. Two more aides departed Fetterman\u2019s office<\/u><\/a> in the last couple months.<\/p>\n

In a Monday debate in Boston with Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), Fetterman said that reporting about his missing votes and committee hearings is a \u201cweird smear.\u201d Previously, he criticized a New York magazine article<\/u><\/a> about former and current aides who expressed concerns about his health \u201ca one-source hit piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m here. I\u2019m doing that job,\u201d he said in the debate that aired on Fox Nation<\/u><\/a>. \u201cFor me, if I miss some of those quotes \u2014 I mean some of those votes \u2014 I\u2019ve made 90 percent of them and, and we all know those votes that I\u2019ve missed were on Monday; those are travel days, and I have three young kids, and I \u2014 those are throwaway procedural votes. \u2026 That\u2019s a choice that I made, and if you want to attack me for that, go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to concerns over his health, some ex-staffers have been frustrated with Fetterman’s hardline support of Israel and recent meeting with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman\u2019s chief of staff is leaving her post, two people familiar with the matter confirmed to Blue Light News on Tuesday. The move is yet another key departure for a congressional office that\u2019s been marked by turnover amid mounting questions about the Democrat’s health and shifting political persona. Axios first reported Krysta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}