President Trump’s longtime adviser Kellyanne Conway is stepping down from her role at the end of the month.
Conway, whose daughter Claudia has sparked national attention this summer over her anti-Trump tweets, said she and her husband are taking time off to tend to their four children.
“We disagree about plenty,” Kellyanne said in a statement, referring to her husband, George Conway, the co-founder of the Lincoln Project, a Republican anti-Trump group.
“But we are united on what matters most: the kids,” Kellyanne said in her statement.
Kellyanne, who helped guide Trump to victory in 2016 as his third campaign manager, told the president of her decision Sunday night in the Oval Office, the Washington Post reported.
Before her departure, Kellyanne is slated to speak Wednesday at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
In her statement, Kellyanne said the decision to step down was hers and noted that all four of her children — both middle and high schoolers — will be learning remotely for at least the first few months of the upcoming academic year.
“As millions of parents nationwide know, kids ‘doing school from home’ requires a level of attention and vigilance that is as unusual as these times,” Kellyanne said.
“In time, I will announce future plans. For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama,” she wrote.
The “drama” may have been in reference to Claudia, who has repeatedly used Twitter to voice her frustration over her mother’s work for Trump.
George separately announced Sunday that he is leaving the Lincoln Project and “taking a Twitter hiatus.”
“Needless to say, I continue to support the Lincoln Project and its mission. Passionately,” he tweeted.