Sarah Sanders Leaving White House

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, is leaving the administration, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet Thursday.

Trump said Sanders will leave the White House at the end of the month to return to her home state of Arkansas.

Trump thanked Sanders "for a job well done" and wrote that he hopes Sanders decides to run for governor of Arkansas. Sanders' father, Mike Huckabee, is a former governor of Arkansas.

Sanders assumed the post of White House Press Secretary after the resignation of Sean Spicer, who stepped down from the position just six months into the start of the new administration.

Sanders has not held a daily press briefing for reporters covering the White House in over three months. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller's report , which contained the findings of his nearly two-year investigation, detailed five instances when Sanders lied to the American public, according to Vox.com's summary of that particular part of the report.

One of those instances came after the firing of FBI Director James Comey. According to Vox, Sanders admitted to federal investigators that when she said she had heard from "countless members of the FBI" that they had lost confidence in Comey, it was a "slip of the tongue" and not based on anything.