[ELS]

I never understood why fabulously wealthy people like Bannon, Ross and Mnuchin would even want to work in Washington.

They have the money. The other perennial attraction, due to human nature, is power. Washington, D.C. has power in spades.

[Alberta's Child]

That would explain why Bannon would leave. When you don’t report directly to the president anymore and now have to answer to a chief of staff, you have no power.