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Scaramucci on "administrative exclusion list" from the White House

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Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is on an "administrative exclusion list" from the White House, Bloomberg reports, and can't access the campus "without special approval."

Why it matters: Scaramucci, whose tenure in the White House lasted less than two weeks, is on a list with other former White House staffers who departed "under adverse circumstances," per Bloomberg. He tweeted on Friday evening: "The next time I will go to Washington it will be to visit the @smithsonian."

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