More Trump administration resignations
Five officials at the Federal Aviation Administration, the entire non-career political staff except the agency’s administrator, have resigned, according to an email sent by the FAA’s chief-of-staff to senior managers on Thursday evening and obtained by NBC News.
“This evening, the Secretary and the Administrator received resignation letters from all our non-career staff members here at FAA. These resignations will be effective Monday evening. Our colleagues’ decisions, given the gravity of yesterday’s events, are understandable. Like all of us, they are outraged by the brazen and violent attack on one of the sacred institutions of American democracy,” said Angela Stubblefield.
The assistant secretary for mental health and substance use, Elinore F. McCance-Katz, at the Department of Health and Human Services also resigned on Thursday, according to a statement she released. She said that she had planned to stay on until Biden became president but her plans “abruptly changed” after she saw the violent takeover of the Capitol.
“I believe that this behavior was totally unacceptable and, in my own heart, I simply am not able to continue,” she wrote, and then subtly implied that Trump is to blame. “Because I believe that the mental health of our people has suffered so greatly under the stresses of COVID-19, the social justice issues that have been so painful for so many, and now with the rending of our nation over questions raised about the presidential election, I cannot support language that results in incitement of violence and risks our very existence.”
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