New York entrepreneur Andrew Saul affirms prior to the Senate Finance Committee throughout his verification hearing to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 02, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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President Joe Biden on Friday fired the head of the Social Security Administration after the authorities, who was selected by previous President Donald Trump, declined to resign.
The White House stated the Social Security commissioner, Andrew Saul, “undermined and politicized” the firm’s advantages, to name a few things that required his shooting. Saul’s deputy, David Black, who was likewise selected by Trump, resigned on Friday after the White House’s demand.
“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,” the White House stated.
Saul informed The Washington Post, nevertheless, that he prepares to log back into deal with Monday.Â
“This was the first I or my deputy knew this was coming,” Saul informed the paper, describing the e-mail he got from the White House Personnel Office on Friday early morning. “It was a bolt of lightning no one expected. And right now it’s left the agency in complete turmoil.”
Saul, 74, is a longtime Republican donor, a previous vice chairman of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and a rich entrepreneur who reversed females’s clothing business Cache.
The president selected Kilolo Kijakazi, who is presently the deputy commissioner for retirement and special needs policy, as acting commissioner, a White House main informed NBC News.
Kijakazi formerly worked as a fellow at the Urban Institute, a program officer for the Ford Foundation and a senior policy expert for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. A look for commissioner and deputy commissioner will be carried out.
