Andrew Bailey, the co-deputy director of the FBI, announced on Monday that he will resign from his position.

Bailey, the former attorney general of Missouri, stepped into his FBI post in August 2025.

“I want to thank President Trump, @AGToddBlanche, and @FBIDirectorKash for the opportunity to serve in the FBI. Under President Trump’s leadership, we have delivered historic results in our mission to Make America Safe Again,” Bailey said.

“With great pride in what we have accomplished, I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri. I am confident Director Patel will continue to reform the FBI, combat violent crime, defend the homeland, ensure strong organizational accountability, and restore public trust in this institution of excellence,” he added.

Fox News shared further:

Bailey initially served in his role alongside Dan Bongino, a conservative podcaster and former U.S. Secret Service member who stepped down in December 2025 amid clashes with then-Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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He then served with his FBI co-deputy, Chris Raia, the former assistant director in charge of the bureau’s New York City Field Office, in a continuation of the nontraditional co-deputy structure initiated by FBI Director Kash Patel.

“I want to thank Andrew Bailey for his dedicated service to return the FBI to its core mission and fulfill President Trump’s promise to make America safe again. Although Andrew is leaving the FBI in order to return to his family in Missouri, his fantastic contribution instituting critical reforms which resulted in our historic success will live on,” Patel said.

“Andrew’s leadership at the FBI will be missed but we are grateful he answered the call to serve! Thanks Andrew for your tremendous dedication to the mission of this FBI,” he continued.

ABC News has more:

Bailey helped lead election integrity investigations at the FBI, including showing up with then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard last January at the raid of the Fulton County, Georgia, election office, in which ballots and other documents related to the 2020 election were seized.

A federal judge in May denied Fulton County officials’ request to force the FBI to return hundreds of boxes of ballots from the 2020 election that were seized earlier this year.

At the time, Gabbard’s role in the raid was questioned over why the DNI — who deals with foreign intelligence threats — was getting involved in domestic law enforcement.

As Missouri AG, Bailey led an effort that ended with a consent decree barring social media companies from censoring protected speech and filed a number of lawsuits against the Biden administration over issues such as transgender athletes and immigration and demanded that the Justice Department provide documents and communications regarding investigations into Trump.

 

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