WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump dismissed Congress Librarian Carla Hayden on Thursday, according to a copy of her termination email obtained by NBC News.
In the email sent to Hayden, Trent Morse, deputy director of presidential personnel, wrote: “In the name of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform that his position as Congress librarian is immediately fired.”
The email was shared with the Congress Democrats and obtained by NBC News.
The main vice -biblotection Robert Newlen sent an E -mail on Thursday informing Hayden’s resignation library staff, according to a copy obtained by NBC News. Newlen said in the Email that “will assume the duties of the interim librarian of Congress until more instructions.”
A Gate -Vook of the Congress Library later confirmed the end of Hayden.
“Tonight, the White House informed Congress librarian, Carla Hayden, who was dismissed from her in force immediately,” said the gate.
Hayden, the 14th Congress librarian in the institution’s 225th anniversary of history, was appointed by President Barack Obama in February 2016 and confirmed by the Senate in July 2016 in a 74-18 bipartisan vote.
She was the first woman and the first Afro -American to play the role, the milestones Obama called “a long time ago.” In addition, she was the first librarian of Congress to hold the position without a lifetime appointment, with Obama signing a law in 2015 to establish a 10 -year term for Congress librarian. His term was scheduled to expire next year.
Before his mandate as Congress Librarian, Hayden was CEO of Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
Testiments to the Senate Appropriation Committee on Tuesday morning and then the House Administration Committee that afternoon, she described her efforts to modernize and extensively optimize library systems, processes and staff.
She is the second officer to have witnessed to Congress and then fired this week after Cameron Hamilton was fired as an interim director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Democrats criticized Hayden’s resignation with Deputy Joe Morelle of New York, the main democrat of the House Administration Committee, who supervises the Congress library, accusing Trump of unjustly aiming at a civil servant.
“Congress librarian, Dr. Carla Hayden, has spent her entire career serving people – from helping children learning to read some of the nation’s most precious treasures. She is an American hero,” Morelle said in a statement, adding that he plans to present the legislation to ensure that Congress’s librarian is appointed by Congress. ”
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, Dn.Y., also called for intervention in Congress.
“We must claim our prerogative of Congress, making the position of Congress librarian appointed by a Congress committee – not by the presidents who treat federal commitments such as reality awards,” he said in a statement by E -mail, calling the “last foray of Trump”, calling the rejection of our “Trump” democracy to dismantle our democracy “Trump” “.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., called Trump’s decision “ignorant” and said that “it will” affect the libraries of America, our economic interests protected by copyright and service to the American people. ”
“Donald Trump’s unfair decision to fire Dr. Hayden in an e -mail sent by a random political hack is a disgrace and the latest in his continuous effort to ban books, the American panties history and return the clock,” Jeffries added in a statement.
A non -profit conservative group, the American Accountability Foundation, targets Hayden in recent days, accusing him of “wakes up” and claiming that he promotes books on “radical gender identity.”