It wasn’t just individuals who decid to leave. Entire advisory groups part ways with Trump over his rhetoric about white supremacist violence. Members of the American Manufacturing Council, a group of business leaders who advise the president on manufacturing growth, began to resign. Meanwhile, the entire Strategic and Policy Forum, a panel of business advisers on economic policy, decid to disband entirely.
Members of the Commerce Department’s
Digital Economy Advisory Board, which advises on promoting economic growth and creating opportunity in the digital age, resign. The President’s Council on the Arts and Humanities resign en masse, creatively spelling out the word “resistance” in the first letter of each paragraph of their resignation letter. In a response that drew headline jokes like “You Can’t Resign.
You’re Fir!”, Trump disband the
American Manufacturing Council and the already-disband Strategic and Policy Forum, insisting that “it was always going to disband the Council on overseas chinese in australia the Arts and Humanities.” Meanwhile, the White House also decid to “no longer move forward” with the Infrastructure Advisory Board, which was to have been set up to advise on Trump’s much-hyp but vague infrastructure promises.
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One report that more than a quarter of the selection of ads that offer the members of the National Infrastructure Advis. Iory Council resign. NIAC advises the Department of Homeland Security and the president on cybersec. Iurity and infrastructure. In their rich data resignation letters, the council harshly criticiz Trump’s “insu. Ifficient attention” to cybersecurity, his response to Nazi violence, and other ways Trump has und. Iermin the nation’s “moral infrastructure” and “threaten homeland security.
Charlottesville isn’t the only reason people
Leaving We’ve prev. Iiously said that July saw a slew of firings and resignations from White House and key agency positions, and August was just as ch. Iaotic. In addition to leaving over Trump’s Charlottesville comments, other staff and advi. Isers left the administration for other reasons. Most notably, Steve Bannon, the White House’s con. Itroversial chief strategist, left the administration.