The White House is expected to name Lance Leggitt as the next deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council, according to a Politico report.

Leggitt most recently served as former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price Thomas (Tom) Edmunds PriceConspicuous by their absence from the Republican Convention Coronavirus Report: The Hill's Steve Clemons interviews Chris Christie Trump flails as audience dwindles and ratings plummet MORE's chief of staff. He also served in the Health and Human Services Department and the White House under the administration of President George W. Bush, where he focused on health policy.

Leggitt's appointment has not yet been finalized, but one source told Politico that he is the likely pick.

Leggitt will replace Paul Winfree as the deputy director of the council. Winfree departed the White House recently to go to the Heritage Foundation, where he worked before joining the Trump administration.

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Winfree's resignation is the latest in a series of departures expected at the end of Trump's first year in office. Among the others to announce their departures in recent weeks were deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and Omarosa Manigault Newman Omarosa Onee Manigault NewmanTrump hurls insults at Harris, Ocasio-Cortez and other women Pelosi makes fans as Democrat who gets under Trump's skin The Memo: Impeachment's scars cut deep with Trump, say those who know him MORE, the communications director for the White House's Office of Public Liaison.

Jeremy Katz, the deputy director of the White House National Economic Council, is also expected to leave the Trump administration next month, The Washington Post reported Friday.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.