President Trump dismissed the long -standing librarian of the Carla Hayden congress, a source of the congress confirmed at CBS News.
Hayden was dismissed Thursday by e-mail of Trent Morse, deputy director of presidential staff.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I write to you to inform you that your position as a librarian in the congress is terminated immediately,” reads the email, which was obtained by CBS News. “Thank you for your service.”
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CBS News contacted the White House to comment. A manager of the Congress Library also confirmed the dismissal of Hayden on CBS News.
“The White House informed the Carla Hayden Congress Librarian that she was relieved of her post,” said the manager in an email.
This decision was exploded by the chief of the Democrat minority of the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber, who declared about Trump in a statement in a statement that the “unfair decision to dismiss Dr. Hayden in a e-mail sent by a random political hack is a shame and the last of his continuous effort to prohibit books, whiten American history and put back the chronometer.”
Hayden has been the congress librarian since 2016. She was the first woman and African-American to hold the position.
“Personally, being a person of color, it means so much because people who look like me were prohibited by law to learn to read”, Hayden told CBS News in an interview in 2020. “It means so much that here is a person of color who directs the largest library in the world.”
Before taking the job, she was CEO of the Free Enoch Pratt library in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1993 to 2016.
In his own declaration criticizing this decision, the chief of the minority of the Democratic Senate, Chuck Schumer, called for the “Post of Congress Librarian” to be “appointed by a Congress Commission” and “not by presidents who deal with federal appointments such as reality TV prices”.
Democratic representative Joe Morelle from New York, member of the classification of the Chamber’s Administration Committee, described the dismissal as an “ignorant decision” which “will have an impact on American libraries, our economic interests protected by copyright and service to the American people by threatening the support of the congress. His decision is a complete shame.”
Weijia Jiang contributed to this report.
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