Joe Kasper, Hegseth’s chief of staff, is the fourth top official to be ousted in the last week amid turmoil at the Pentagon.

The center at 1288 W. River Road, operates on a skeleton staff, relying heavily on 200 or so volunteers to serve as the nerve center for Southern Arizona's Chinese community.

The council has used agencies to provide a skeleton staff, paying firms supplying agency workers nearly £8 million this year to run collections (more than double its agency spending the year before).