Monica Elizabeth Crowley[1] (born September 19, 1968) is the former assistant secretary for public affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Crowley was born at Fort Huachuca,[2] an Army base located outside Sierra Vista, Arizona, and grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey.

Crowley was an occasional panelist on Fox News Channel's late-night talk show; Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

"[17] As a student, Crowley began writing letters to former president Richard Nixon, who hired her as a research assistant in 1990[18] when she was 22.

In March 2017, Crowley joined the firm of Douglas Schoen as a part-time consultant, providing "outreach services" on behalf of Ukrainian industrialist and political figure Victor Pinchuk.

[25][1][26] Crowley replaced Tony Sayegh, who left the position in May, as the top spokeswoman for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

[28] On December 4, 2024, president-elect Trump announced that Crowley would be appointed as the Ambassador, Assistant Secretary of State, and Chief of Protocol.

"[30] On January 7, 2017, CNN published a report documenting numerous instances of plagiarism in Crowley's 2012 book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened?

[32] Two days later, on January 9, 2017, Politico reported that a dozen additional instances of plagiarism were in Crowley's 2000 Ph.D. dissertation on international relations at Columbia University.

[36] The Washington Times, where she served previously as online opinion editor, said the same day that it would be investigating her work at the paper for possible incidents of additional plagiarism by her.

[37] Crowley subsequently told Fox News host Sean Hannity, "What happened to me was a despicable, straight-up, political hit job" and said that it had been "debunked.

"[39] Crowley has on multiple occasions spread conspiracy theories that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.