Taylor Weyeneth  Taylor P. Weyeneth (born August 30, 1993) is an American former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and White House Liaison who served from January 23, 2017, to February 27, 2018, under President Donald Trump. The Deputy Chief of Staff position is considered to be the "second most important position" in the ONDCP. Before taking the position at ONDCP, Weyeneth served as the Deputy White House Liaison at the United States Department of the Treasury, as an advisor to the executive director of the Presidential Transition Team, and began his political career as a campaign staffer for Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Following his graduation from college in 2016, Weyeneth worked on the Trump presidential campaign. Proceeding the presidential election in 2016, Weyeneth became the advisor to Rick Dearborn, the Executive Director of the Presidential Transition Team. After President Trump was inaugurated, Taylor was hired to be the Deputy White House Liaison at the United States Department of the Treasury, where he served through the confirmation of Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. After the secretary was confirmed, Weyeneth accepted a role in the White House as the White House Liaison to the Drug Czar. After months on the job at the White House Drug Policy Office, Weyeneth was promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff. After nearly a year of service at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Weyeneth was faced with controversy due to his age and lack of experience in an executive position. When Weyeneth's role at the ONDCP was revealed, "outrage ensued", as "questions quickly arose about his qualifications after multiple discrepancies popped up on several of his résumés and reports surfaced that another job he held at a New York law firm... [which] ended after Weyeneth failed to show up for work." Later it was reported by the "Washington Post" that Weyeneth had supplied them with the resignation email he had sent to Brian O'Dwyer and had left on "good terms". Weyeneth believed O'Dwyer had given mistruths to the "Washington Post" due to differences in political ideology and because Weyeneth decided to work for the candidate running against O'Dwyer's "friend" and "former employer", Hillary Clinton. "Business Insider" wrote Weyeneth had "no experience with drug policy, government service, or law, unlike his predecessors in previous administrations."