{"id":41058,"date":"2025-05-09T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/trump-abruptly-fires-librarian-of-congress-in-latest-purge-of-government\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:18:08","slug":"trump-abruptly-fires-librarian-of-congress-in-latest-purge-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/trump-abruptly-fires-librarian-of-congress-in-latest-purge-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First woman and first African American to hold post dismissed in terse email on Thursday night<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/may\/09\/trump-administration-polls-tariffs-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> abruptly fired the librarian of Congress, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/sep\/15\/carla-hayden-librarian-congress-first-woman-african-american-post-interview\">Carla Hayden<\/a>, on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the Republican US president and his agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden was notified in an email late on Thursday from the White House\u2019s presidential personnel office, according to an email obtained by the Associated Press. Confirmed by the Senate to the job in 2016, Hayden was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/sep\/15\/carla-hayden-librarian-congress-first-woman-african-american-post-interview\">the first<\/a> woman and the first African American to be librarian of Congress.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/09\/trump-congress-librarian-fired\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First woman and first African American to hold post dismissed in terse email on Thursday night US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump abruptly fired the librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the Republican US president and his &#8230; <a title=\"Trump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/trump-abruptly-fires-librarian-of-congress-in-latest-purge-of-government\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}