China News Service, November 13 According to US media reports on the 12th, people familiar with the matter revealed that under pressure from the White House, two senior officials of the US Department of Homeland Security were forced to resign.
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According to reports, among the two forced to resign, one of them was Bryan Ware, a senior official of the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Department, who served as the Assistant Director of Cyber Security of the US Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The other is Valerie Boyd, Assistant Secretary of International Affairs of the Department of Homeland Security.
In his resignation letter submitted to US President Trump, Will stated that his resignation will take effect on the 13th local time.
He said in his farewell letter to employees that he did not want to resign, saying that he left "with sorrow" and "this is too soon."
The Department of Homeland Security and the White House declined to comment on the resignation of the above-mentioned officials.
Earlier, U.S. President Trump announced the dismissal of Secretary of Defense Esper. Shortly afterwards, many senior Pentagon officials handed in their resignations, including James Anderson, the top Pentagon policy official, and Joseph Kernan, the top Pentagon intelligence official. ), as well as Esper’s Chief of Staff Jen Stewart (Jen Stewart) and others, all submitted a letter of resignation, effective immediately.