President Trump has fired longtime Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, a congressional supply confirmed to CBS Information.
Hayden was fired in an electronic mail Thursday from Trent Morse, deputy director of presidential personnel.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately,” learn the e-mail, which was obtained by CBS Information. “Thank you for your service.”
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CBS Information has reached out to the White Home for remark. A Library of Congress official additionally confirmed Hayden’s firing to CBS Information.
“The White House informed Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden that she has been relieved of her position,” the official stated in an electronic mail.
The transfer was blasted by Democratic Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, who stated of Mr. Trump in an announcement that the “unjust decision to fire Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political hack is a disgrace and the latest in his ongoing effort to ban books, whitewash American history and turn back the clock.”
Hayden has been the librarian of Congress since 2016. She was first lady and African American to carry the place.
“Personally, being a person of color, it means so much because people who look like me were forbidden by law to learn to read,” Hayden informed CBS Information in an interview in 2020. “That means so much that here is a person of color leading the world’s largest library.”
Previous to taking the publish, she was CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1993 till 2016.
In his personal assertion criticizing the transfer, Democratic Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer referred to as for the “position of Librarian of Congress” to be “appointed by a congressional commission” and “not by presidents that treat federal appointments like reality TV prizes.”
Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the rating member on the Committee on Home Administration, described the firing as an “ignorant decision” that “will impact America’s libraries, our copyrighted economic interests, and service to the American people by threatening support for Congress. His decision is a complete disgrace.”
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