FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey steps down amid agency shake-up

Bailey, who oversaw some of Trump’s election crackdown investigations, to resign about a year after assuming role Andrew Bailey, a deputy director of the FBI who has been overseeing some of Trump’s election-related investigations, will step down from his position approximately one year after assuming his role. “I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri,” Bailey wrote in an X post on Monday amid an ongoing shake-up at the bureau. Continue reading...

Ariana Baio · Mon, Sep 28, 2026, 10:07 AM
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FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey steps down amid agency shake-up

Bailey, who oversaw some of Trump’s election crackdown investigations, to resign about a year after assuming role

Andrew Bailey, a deputy director of the FBI who has been overseeing some of Trump’s election-related investigations, will step down from his position approximately one year after assuming his role.

“I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri,” Bailey wrote in an X post on Monday amid an ongoing shake-up at the bureau.

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