A new ban at the White House: Staff's personal mobile phones


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  • Thursday, 04 Jan 2018

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by (L-R), Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, speaks by phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. on January 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

The White House is banning its employees from using personal mobile phones while at work, despite concerns among some staffers that they’ll be cut off from children and other relatives trying to reach them, two White House officials say.

Starting Jan 5, Trump administration aides will not be allowed to use their personal cellphones on the White House campus, one aide said.

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