“They refused to leave voluntarily.” Biden sacks three Trump-appointed officials
3 officials under former President Donald Trump refused to resign at the request of the new administration, forcing US President Joe Biden to use his powers by removing them from their posts.
The "Slate" website said that 3 of the senior officials appointed by former President Trump were sacked, on Wednesday.
While General Surgeon Jerome Adams confirmed that the Biden administration asked him to step down before Biden's inauguration on Wednesday, according to what was reported by "The Hill".
"It has been the honor of my life to serve this nation, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve and maintain health," Adams wrote on Twitter.
Biden chose former general surgeon Vivek Murthy to return to the position.
Several of the Trump administration officials resigned shortly before Biden took the helm at the White House.
However, three high-level officials rejected the new administration's request to resign, prompting Biden to immediately take the decision to fire them, and they are CIA chief Michael Buck, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Office, Cathy Craninger, in addition to Peter Rob, who works as an advisor to the National Council on Labor Relations.
With the Democrats being able to resolve any vote in the Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris' vote that favors the Democrats on par with the Republicans, Biden can pass the new appointments smoothly.
According to "Bloomberg Law," the White House informed Rob of his dismissal, just minutes after Biden was sworn in, on Wednesday.
Trade unionists were calling for the General Counsel to be sacked just days after the November elections, citing the lawyer’s record of bias toward employers in key cases and efforts to rein in the agency’s regional offices.
But President Biden's move angered Republicans and commercial prosecutors who said it threatens the independent status of the agency, and that it is in a different direction than Biden’s call for unity in his inauguration speech.
Critics of the move indicated that former President Donald Trump refrained from sacking Richard Griffin, the general counsel of the National Council on Labor Relations during the Obama administration, which enabled him to serve another 9 months until the end of his term.
Prior to that, Ronald Mesburg, the Republican appointed by President George W. Bush to the same post, served for more than a year under Obama.
Robb's term was to last until November, but labor unions, including the International Federation of Service Employees and Communications Workers in the United States, urged Biden to force him out of office, in order to begin reorienting the agency toward worker protection.
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