Whereas Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Stephanie Grisham both worked in the White House prior to being hired as Press Secretaries, 32-year-old Kayleigh was a relative newcomer to the White House offices — although she did intern there as a college student, writing media briefings.

Kayleigh graduated from Georgetown University and Harvard University, then quickly began a career in media as a producer for FOX’s Huckabee. She also worked as a commentator for CNN, and a national spokesperson for the Republican National Convention. She’s been in the public eye for several years, both as a proponent of the birther conspiracy theories against President Barack Obama and as one of Trump’s biggest critics in the lead-up to the 2016 election. She contains multitudes.

Although Kayleigh hasn’t been Press Secretary for long, she has already had to navigate conversations with the media regarding injecting disinfectants to fight COVID-19, inaccurate claims about voting by mail, and, most recently, the president’s use of racist language to refer to the coronavirus. $183,000 per year certainly isn’t anything to scoff at, but we can’t help but wonder whether it’s truly commensurate with the job’s many duties.