The White House has finally asked thousands of President
Donald Trump’s political appointees to resign,” According to Washington Post.
The appointees, ranging from ambassadors to schedulers, are
to resign on Inauguration Day.
President Trump administration had stalled this formality
for weeks as the outgoing leader disputed the election outcome.
A White House directive was emailed to agency heads on
Thursday that political appointees must resign effective Jan. 20.
President-elect Joe Biden will take over office on the said
date.
The order was issued by Chris Liddell, the deputy White
House chief of staff who has been leading transition arrangements with the
Biden team, and was first reported by Politico.
The call for appointees resignations followed Trump’s
statement early Thursday that there would be an orderly transfer of power come
January 20.
Before now the White House had refused to issue the call for
resignations since November 2020 when Biden was confirmed winner of the
presidential election.
Every outgoing administration in the US is expected to issue
the order between Election Day and mid-December.
In Trump’s case, White House officials declined to request
the resignations because Trump rejected Biden’s victory and file a flury of
court cases challenging the voting results in the courts.
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