{{Short description|American political aide (born 1987)}} {{good article}} {{Use shortened footnotes|date=May 2025}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Nick Luna | image = Nick Luna (54631499639) (cropped).jpg | caption = Luna in 2025 | office = White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Implementation | president = Donald Trump | 1blankname = Chief of Staff | 1namedata = Susie Wiles | term_start = January 20, 2025 | term_end = | predecessor = Natalie Quillian | successor = | office1 = Director of Oval Office Operations | president1 = Donald Trump | term_start1 = April 21, 2020 | term_end1 = January 20, 2021 | predecessor1 = Madeleine Westerhout | successor1 = Annie Tomasini | birth_name = Nicholas Francisco Luna | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|06|15}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = | spouse = {{Marriage|Cassidy Dumbauld|2020}} | education = }} '''Nicholas Francisco Luna''' (born June 15, 1987) is an American political aide who has served as the White House deputy chief of staff for strategic implementation since 2025.

In February 2019, Luna was named as deputy assistant to the president for operations and a personal aide to the president. He was named as assistant to the president and director of oval office operations in April. Luna remained with Trump after the January 6 Capitol attack and worked for CIC Ventures. In January 2025, Trump named Luna as the White House deputy chief of staff for strategic implementation.

==Early life== Nicholas Francisco Luna{{Sfn|Nicholas F Luna in the U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019}} was born on June 15,{{Sfn|Allen|2015}} 1987.{{Sfn|Nicholas F Luna in the U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019}}

==Career== ===Political aide (2019–2021)=== In February 2019, Luna was named as deputy assistant to the president for operations and a personal aide to the president.{{Sfn|"President Donald J. Trump Announces Appointments for the Executive Office of the President". White House}} As a personal aide, he was photographed carrying printed materials, including newspapers, for Donald Trump.{{Sfn|Lippman|2019}} Luna was named as assistant to the president and director of oval office operations in April.{{Sfn|Haberman|2020}} By February, Luna had been dating Cassidy Dumbauld, an assistant to Jared Kushner;{{Sfn|Rogers|2020}} they married in September.{{Sfn|Gómez|2020}} That month, he attended a gathering in the White House Rose Garden to announce Amy Coney Barrett as Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The event led to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the White House.{{Sfn|Gómez|2020}} Bloomberg News reported the following month that Luna had contracted COVID-19.{{Sfn|Jacobs|Sink|2020}} Luna remained in the White House following the January 6 Capitol attack.{{Sfn|Karni|2021}}

===Post-government work (2021–2024)=== In December 2020, Luna was named as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council alongside Andrew Giuliani and Mitch Webber.{{Sfn|Montague|2020}} He was named as a co-director of CIC Ventures alongside John Marion, a Trump lawyer, in 2021; in an interview with ''The New York Times'', Luna stated that he had not been involved in the company in over a year by December 2022.{{Sfn|Bender|Haberman|2022}}

Luna—who was present in the Oval Office when Trump pressured vice president Mike Pence to refuse to certify the 2020 presidential election—was subpoenaed by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol in November 2021, in an effort by the panel to document Trump's actions on the day of the attack.{{Sfn|Broadwater|Mazzetti|2021}}

===White House Deputy Chief of Staff (2025–present)=== On January 4, 2025, Trump named Luna as the White House deputy chief of staff for strategic implementation.{{Sfn|Timotija|2025}}

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