Mon Sep 13, 2021 – 3:01 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — A bevy of Trump-appointed officials serving on federal advisory boards were told to resign or be fired last Wednesday in an “unprecedented” move that many are calling a “purge.”
Officials who had been appointed by former President Donald Trump to serve on advisory boards and commissions were handed a letter from the White House personnel director dated September 8 asking them to resign.
If they failed to do so, the letter stipulated that their position would be terminated.
As reported by the Daily Wire, the board members given a pink slip by the Biden administration ran the gamut from appointees to boards for military academies “to highly credentialed experts at obscure entities where politics are unlikely to be an issue.”
According to the New York Post, President Joe Biden’s purge has drawn “stiff pushback” because the board members had been granted fixed appointments with terms that were “supposed to last three years.”
Some have seen the Biden administration’s ouster of Trump appointees as an attempt to replace even marginally conservative board members serving on even generic and apolitical boards with new appointees ideologically aligned
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