WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, the Secretary of the Congress Library, Carla Hayden, launched on Thursday, according to a copy of its email to the end obtained by NBC News.
In the e -mail that was sent to Hayden, Trent Morse, Deputy Director of Presidential Staff, wrote: “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I write to inform you that your position as a librarian in Congress has been immediately ended.”
Email was shared with Democrats in Congress and obtained by NBC News.
The main librarians deputy, Robert News, sent an email on Thursday to inform the library staff about the dismissal of Hayden, according to a copy obtained by NBC News. “He will take over the duties of the Acting Library until other instructions.”
A spokesman for the Congress Library later confirmed the termination of Heiden.
“Tonight, I informed the White House Secretary of Congress, Carla Hayden, that she had passed out of her position effectively,” the library spokeswoman said.
Hayden, Secretary of the Fourth Congress Library in the history of the institution of 225 years, was appointed by President Barack Obama in February 2016 Confirmation By the Senate In July 2016, in a vote of the two parties of 74-18.
She was The first woman And the first African American to occupy the role, Obama launched the “long -awaited” features. In addition, Congress was the first of the Congress Library to hold this position without a lifetime designation, as Obama was legally signed in 2015 to create a 10 -year period for the Secretary of the Congress Library. Its term has been appointed next year.
Before her mandate as a Congress Library, Heiden was the CEO of Enok Prata’s free library in Baltimore.
In testimony on Senate Credit Committee On Tuesday morning and then to Parliament Management Committee This afternoon, she made it clear to update and improve the library systems, operations and employees on a large scale.
She is the second official to witness Congress and then being expelled this week after Cameron Hamilton as Acting Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Democrats, with the dismissal of Hayden, with MP Joe Morel from New York, criticized the best Democrats in the House of Representatives Administration Committee, which supervises the Library of Congress, accusing Trump of targeting a government employee.
“The Secretary of the Congress Library, Dr. Carla Hayden, spent her entire career in the service of people – which helps children learn to read to protect some of the treasures of the most valuable nation. She is an American hero,” in a statement, adding that he intends to provide legislation to ensure that the Congress Library is appointed by Congress. “
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. To enter Congress.
“We must confirm our concession in Congress by applying the position of Secretary of the Congress appointed by the Congress Committee – and not by presidents who treat federal appointments such as reality TV awards,” he said in a statement, in a statement sent an email, describing “the last invasion in his campaign to” dismantle the attraction of democracy. “
The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, DN.Y, described Trump’s decision as “ignorant” and said that he “will affect America’s libraries, our economic and copyright economic interests, and the service of the American people.”
Jeffrez added in a statement: “Donald Trump’s unjust decision to dismiss Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political breakthrough is a stigma and the latest in his constant effort to ban books, and to help American history and restore the hour.”
A non -profit collection targeted the American Accountability Foundation, Hayden in recent days, accusationa job Ha From “waking up” and claimed that she has strengthened access to books on “radical sexual identity”.
The group praised Trump’s decision to end Hayden.
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