The Trump administration announced Friday night that it has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan, who ran the independent agency charged with preserving and providing access to federal government records.

President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records. Sergio Gor, director of the Presidential Personnel Office, announced Shogan's dismissal Friday night. Shogan has held the job since 2023.

The National Archives became the target of Trump’s ire when the independent agency sought to retain documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.

White House does not provide a reason for Shogan's firing, but she was involved in investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving office in 2021 - Anadolu Ajansı

President Donald Trump’s administration announced it had dismissed Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan in a surprise move Friday evening.

North Huntingdon native Colleen Shogan was fired Friday night from her job as the Archivist of the United States, just as President Donald Trump had hinted at during an interview before his inauguration.

The president has dismissed the top U.S. archivist after fuming about the agency’s role in the criminal classified-documents case against him

President Donald Trump is removing the head of the National Archives and Records Administration, according to his chief of personnel, and will select his own nominee to lead an agency that serves as the steward of White House records,