Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump has a sharply fired Congress librarian Carla Hayden on Thursday when the White House continues to cleanse the federal government of those who perceive to oppose the president and his program.
Hayden was notified on an email late Thursday by the White House presidential staff office, according to an email received by the Associated Press. Confirmed by the Senate of Work in 2016, Hayden, the longtime leader of the Baltimore Library System, was the first woman and the first African American to be a librarian of the Congress.
Carla, the email began. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I write to inform you that your position as a Congress librarian has been terminated immediately. Thank you for your service.” A spokesman for the Congress Library confirmed that the White House told Hayden that it was fired.
Hayden, whose 10-year term was due to expire next year, had come under the opposite reaction from a conservative intercession group, who accused her and other library leaders in promoting children’s books with “radical” content and literary material, author of Trump’s opponents.
“The current #librariafcongress Carla Hayden has been awakened, Anti-Trump and promotes transmitting children,” said the US Foundation Group, in its account on X earlier on Thursday, just before the shooting was publicly disclosed. “It’s time to take it out and hire a new person for your job!”
The Congress Library provides at the disposal of the legislators and the public a huge set of historical documents, such as the documents of nearly two dozen presidents and more than three dozen judges of the Supreme Court. He also owns collections of rare books, prints and photos, as well as valuable artifacts – such as a flute owned by President James Madison, which singer and rapper Liso played in 2022, organized by Hayden.
Trump’s unexpected move angered the Democrats in Congress, who initially revealed the shooting.
Connecticut Rosa Delauro’s report, the best democrat on the Chamber’s Budget Loan Committee, said Hayden was “fired” by Trump and asked for an explanation from the administration why he was fired.
The leader of minority in the Hake Hakem Jeffrens, DN.Y., applauded Hayden as “a fulfilled, principled and excellent librarian of Congress.”
“Donald Trump’s wrong decision to fire D -R Hayden in an email sent by a random political hack is a shame, and the most in his constant efforts to ban books, whitening American history and return the watch,” Jeffrins said. “The Congress Library is the National Library. There will be accountability of this unprecedented attack on the American way of life earlier than later.”
New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich, the best Democrat in the Senate, who controls the library’s funding, said the dismissal, which he said, came at 6:56 pm, “take on their attack on America’s new level libraries.”
While Trump “wants to ban books and tell the Americans what to read – or not to read at all, Hayden has dedicated his career to reading and pursuing knowledge accessible to everyone,” Heinrich added.
Robert Newlan, the chief deputy biblibrar, said he would serve as an acting librarian of the Congress “until more education” in a separate email seen by the app.
“I promise to inform everyone,” he writes to my colleagues.
In Gala Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio jokes that he has held three other positions in the Trump administration as an adviser on national security, acting an archivist and acting director of the US Agency for International Development. During his remarks during the event of the Institute of Leadership in the Spanish leadership of the Congress, he said that the leading of the Congress Library “would be a good job”, and then stopped and jokingly offered a Florida reporter Mario Diaz-Balart for the position.
“Do you know what would be good? Congress library. That would be a good job,” Rubio said. “A functioning librarian Mario Diaz-Balart. Do you want it?”