President Biden
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The White House told Gustafson that she was fired at 5:00 p.m. on Friday after she refused to step down voluntarily.
In a letter to the White House released by the Ethics & Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank, Gustafson said she had “ respectfully ” rejected the White House’s request to resign and had spent the remainder of her four-year tenure. year. expired in 2023.
Gautam Raghavan, the White House deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, replied in an email that she was fired starting Friday night.
Neither the White House nor the EEOC immediately responded to requests for comment from The Hill.
Republicans quickly emerged, swinging into the fire. Andrea Lucas, a Republican commissioner of the EEOC, described the firing as a violation of Biden’s call for unity.
“I find the action taken by the White House today against our independent body as deeply troubling, a break with long-established norms respected by the Presidents of both parties, an injection of bias where it was absent, and … telling prove what ‘unity’ actually means to this president and his administration, ”she tweeted.
… telling evidence of what “unity” actually means to this president and his administration. In his inaugural address, the President said, “The right to dissent peacefully, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation’s greatest strength.”
– Andrea R. Lucas (@andrealucasEEOC) March 5, 2021
This is a pattern. President Biden is calling for an end to the ‘Partisan War’, then turning around and demanding that Senate-confirmed officials resign so that he can make room for his left-wing friends, ”said Rep. Virginia Foxx
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President Biden should take a note from General Counsel Gustafson, who stuck to her pledge and refused to yield to partisan pressure. This unprecedented dismissal of an honorable official that took place just hours after she was asked to resign is unfounded. and should be withdrawn immediately., ”said Foxx.
Gustafson was first appointed to her position in 2018. She was scrutinized at the time for comments about protecting LGBT workers.
Gustafson wrote in her letter to the White House that she was unaware of former EEOC lawyers fired at the start of a new government, although Biden has worked quickly to install his own appointees in the federal government.