Representative Michele Bachmann announced that the recent changes in her campaign staff have been the plan all along, not the result of hard times, reports The New York Times. 

“They were kind enough to take leaves of absences,” Bachmann said of the three members of her Iowa campaign team. “There was always an expectation they were going to go back.”
 

 Bachmann recently lost a senior adviser, a press aide, and a scheduler who are all going to now be working in her Congressional office.
 

Bachmann is currently in Iowa where she will spend two days campaigning.