Donald Trump nearly refused to leave the White House when he lost the 2020 presidential election and then promptly proceeded to continually refuse to accept the results of said election even after Joe Biden was literally inaugurated as President of the United States. Literally, we’re 6 months into the Biden administration and he still won’t shut up about it.
And now it seems that the ex-president isn’t the only one who’s tough to get out even after they’ve been fired.
According to a new report from the Washington Post, President Biden recently fired a Trump-appointed official but the guy just won’t leave the agency.
“President Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a holdover from the Trump administration who had alienated crucial Democratic constituencies with policies designed to clamp down benefits and an uncompromising anti-union stance,” the WaPo report reads today.
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“But Saul said in an interview Friday afternoon that he would not leave his post, challenging the legality of the White House move to oust him. As the head of an independent agency whose leadership does not normally change with a new administration, Saul’s six-year term was supposed to last until January 2025. The White House said a recent Supreme Court ruling gives the president power to replace him,” the publication goes on to explain.
Despite his record heavy with controversy, Saul still somehow claims that he was surprised when the President fired him after he refused a request to resign from the White House.
“It was a bolt of lightning no one expected,” he unironically told the Washington Post.
The White House wrote:
Since taking office, Commissioner Saul has undermined and politicized Social Security disability benefits, terminated the agency’s telework policy that was utilized by up to 25 percent of the agency’s workforce, not repaired SSA’s relationships with relevant Federal employee unions including in the context of COVID-19 workplace safety planning, reduced due process protections for benefits appeals hearings, and taken other actions that run contrary to the mission of the agency and the President’s policy agenda.”
Saul has long been a GOP donor as well as a former trustee of a right-wing think tank. the Manhattan Institute.
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